greenery is king

Chapter 1321 Meeting
Schalke has met Chelsea for two consecutive seasons. Last season they relied on Ai Fan's super performance to finally win Chelsea, and then they went all the way to win the UEFA Champions League. This season, the two teams seem to be They are all a bit unsatisfactory, and they met again in the Europa League. This also makes people sigh that life is impermanent.

Schalke Supermarket has surprised everyone this season, they have almost sold a main team, but the interesting thing is that their results have not fallen as everyone guessed, after the ups and downs at the beginning of the season, so far They have risen to the third place in the Bundesliga, just behind Bayern and Dortmund, which really surprised many experts.

This season, Schalke's style of play has been turned upside down. The rapid midfielder at the beginning did not know where he went, but now he has insisted on playing defensive counterattacks, and this simple style of play is very effective. Ranieri is impressed by the current coach.

But Ranieri's life is not easy, Schalke's upper management has been in shock, they seem to have lost interest in the club, but put their energy on other places, which also makes Ranieri The request to introduce some players in the winter transfer market was put on hold indefinitely. Not only that, they even sold Holtby during the winter transfer, which also aroused Ranieri's dissatisfaction.

Unbearable, he even criticized the club in public, which also made the outside world very pessimistic about Ranieri's future in Schalke. There are even rumors that a Premier League club is ready to invite him to coach, but is this rumor true? It's hard to say, after all, Ranieri has never been good at coaching big clubs and everyone knows it well.

But even though Schalke's current situation is not bad, the problem is that no one still believes that Schalke can give Chelsea a head-on blow. After all, Schalke no longer has Ai Fan, let alone the existence of the original group of good players. Their current temperament has changed from a new aristocrat to a commoner, and Chelsea is more kingly than them, which is undeniable by anyone.

Both sides know that this game happened because UEFA wanted to increase the attention of the Europa League, because anyway, one of the two teams is the current leader of the Premier League, and the other is the champion of last year's Champions League. We met a long time ago, and it is better to say that it is an early Europa League championship battle than a battle between dragons and tigers. After all, looking at the current top 32, there are not many teams that can take a shot.

Schalke arrived in London two days before the game. Since the two teams cooperated well with each other in the transfer market this season, Chelsea did not even cause some trouble for the visiting team as usual, and they let go smoothly. He went to Stamford Bridge to train for the opponent, and Schalke also held a formal closed-door training on the day of arrival.

At the end of training, Ai Huan appeared at Stamford Bridge, which also attracted a lot of media attention. Anyway, it is indeed not a common thing for one's own star to suddenly appear on the visiting team's training ground before the game.

Ai Huan has been secretly recording new songs recently. This matter has been kept secret from the outside world, so he seems to have disappeared in the eyes of the media. Now that he finally appeared, he immediately attracted a lot of media attention.

Those reporters who were waiting outside to interview the Schalke players immediately gave up on the Schalke players and all flocked to Ai Huan, raising all the equipment in their hands, and then massacred All the problems were flooded like a flash flood.

"Ai Huan, do you have anything to say about this game?"

"Ai Huan, why did you appear here, do you want to challenge them?"

"Ai Huan, we all know that you played for Schalke last season, but how do you feel when you see Schalke now?"

"Ai Huan, if you score a goal in the next game, will you celebrate?" All kinds of questions made people overwhelmed.

Ai Huan seemed to be in a good mood, with a smile on his face all the time, and he answered one question after another slowly, "Everyone knows that I used to play for Schalke, and I played for Schalke in this team. I had a very happy two years, so I will never speak ill of Schalke. And now many people in this team are my friends, I come to see them and treat them to dinner. Let me talk about the friendship of the landlord, this is not a big deal. As for whether I will celebrate or not, I haven’t thought about it, but what I can say with certainty is that I am a professional player, and the club pays me for my salary. I won’t be ashamed of this salary even if I don’t play the game, and this is my home stadium, I think even if I don’t celebrate, the fans will help me shout YES.”

His answer was not watertight, but it was comprehensive at last. Everyone felt that it was very rare to get so many answers from Ai Huan, but the professional requirements of journalists made them want more things, so they made more messes. All the questions came up.

At this time, one of Schalke's players had already walked out. When Ai Huan saw them, he threw off the reporter and walked over directly. He had a bear hug with Metzelder who was walking in the front, and Howard who was behind. Si, Zhang Chong and others also came over.

The reporters knew that it was time to interview Schalke players at this time, so they ran over in twos and threes to interview players and coaches they knew well, but there were still many people standing here with recording equipment to record what they said every word.But it also gave the four men a chance to speak.

"Ai, we all know that you are in good condition now, you have to be merciful during the game, but don't really lose face at all." Metzelder said with a big smile.He has now entered the twilight years of his career, so naturally he has no urge to leave Schalke and go out again. In this way, he lives a little more comfortably than many others.

Howards also smiled and said, "Boss, if you change direction and accelerate me during the race, then I will give my best."

Ai Huan also laughed and said haha, "We all take other people's salaries to work for others, and everyone should do their best. But today I came here to invite you to dinner. Others in England are okay, but eating is really important. It's a headache and the food is terrible, so I want you to eat something decent."

"Forget it." Zhang Chong took the lead and said, "The boss won't let us go out. You should understand that we have dinner together before the game will always make people think, so let's talk about it after the game."

(End of this chapter)