Red Rebels

After playing Newcastle, Mourinho sent a number of teenagers from the bench to play in the League Cup and challenge Crewe away.

This League Cup, which is mixed in the league and Champions League group stage, is destined to be ignored, but Mourinho said in the dressing room before the game that only players who performed well in this game can follow suit. team to Prague.

He was talking about the second leg of the Champions League group stage a week later.

These young players are often able to come off the bench in some games, which not only adapts to the atmosphere and rhythm of the game, but also allows them to improve themselves faster to meet the requirements of the game.

It is because of the desire to travel to Prague with the team that the young players performed very well in the face of Crewe, using their more excellent and delicate skills to frequently mobilize the opponent's defense, Ismail, Ribery, Messi and Aguero. The little magic combination formed even turned Crewe's back line upside down.

Cesc Fabregas performed well in this game, contributing two assists and also scoring a goal to help the team beat Crewe 1:5 and enter the League Cup round of 32 knockout.

After returning from Crewe, the team headed south to London to challenge Fulham away.

During the recent period of multi-line operations, Mourinho has also adapted to the environment of the team's multi-line operations in recent years, and gradually explored a rotation system.

The first is to establish the central axis of the team, forward, attacking midfielder, organizational midfielder and central defender. In these four key positions, Kaka, Beckham and Terry are basically the main players as long as their physical fitness allows, and the forwards are the main players. Basically, Drogba and Villa look at the opponent's situation to arrange the starting and the bench.

Mourinho’s rotation in these four positions is the smallest, and at most 2 people are rotated at a time, unlike the positions of winger, full-back and defensive midfielder, Mourinho’s rotation is only Relatively large, Essien often rotates with De Rossi to ensure sufficient energy.

Of course, in games like the League Cup, Mourinho will simply send a lineup composed of pure substitutes and youth players to participate in the game, which not only allows the substitute players to have enough opportunities to exercise and maintain their state, but also encourages young players to perform. own ability.

Compared with the League and the Champions Cup, the UEFA Cup and the FA Cup are not valued!

Going south to London, Mourinho lined up the frontcourt combination of Villa, Ronaldinho, Robben and Kaka, Beckham and De Rossi played the midfielder, Evra, Vidic, Curtis and Maicon formed the back line and the goalkeeper was Cech.

Fulham's last home game was against Arsenal. With the goals of Ljungberg and Reyes, Arsenal defeated Fulham 0-2. It was also Fulham's third home defeat this season. What makes Fulham even more embarrassing is that their home results this season are extremely bad, and they have not won even 1 point.

Out of the desire to avoid relegation, Fulham hopes to get a point at home, so in the face of excellent form, they are determined to stick to the end.

……………………Some people in the outside world say that the most fearless team is the team that presses the whole court, such as Newcastle. They press the whole court, the defense line presses forward, and they intend to compress the space. In the end, they won a 5-0 game. fiasco.

So what type of team are you most afraid of?

Fulham set an example for everyone in this game, that is to retreat!

The whole game was in full control of the situation, but in the face of Fulham's tenacious and unreasonable iron barrel formation, Mourinho's team insisted that they had no way to do it.

Even if Mourinho later replaced Ismail, strengthened his dominance in the penalty area, played a double striker, and stepped up his offense, he was still unable to knock on the door of Fulham, who was almost stalking. Way, and Dutch goalkeeper Van der Sar made several incredible saves in front of the goal, forcing the draw to be accepted.

The referee showed 13 yellow cards and 1 direct red card in the whole game. Among them, 9 yellow cards and 1 red card were all given to Fulham, but they received 4 yellow cards.

Among them, Curtis once couldn't stand the opponent's violation of his teammates, and angrily pushed the Fulham player to the ground, causing the referee to show him a yellow card again, two yellows turned one red, and he was sent off.

"If it was just counting those yellow and red cards, I would suspect it was a tough boxing match, my players were badly violated by Fulham players, they weren't here to play, they brought attacks with them. They got on the court with a provocative mind, they deserved more penalties, but unfortunately, it was us who were penalized, we didn't get the victory we deserved, and we fell behind in the championship race!"

"It's all about savagery!" Mourinho said angrily in his post-match news conference.

With Manchester United, Arsenal and Liverpool all winning, a draw left the team behind Manchester United, Arsenal and Liverpool in fourth place and ahead of fifth-placed Chelsea.

However, in the next three rounds of the league, Manchester United, Arsenal, Liverpool and Chelsea will compete against each other. At that time, if they can perform steadily, they may be able to achieve a go-ahead.

The draw with Fulham was sad, but it extended the team's unbeaten streak to 45 games.

After the match against Chelsea, many media began to predict to what extent the unbeaten record would be maintained. Some of them even thought that with a stable state, as long as there were no major accidents, it was likely to reach 48 games, because the 11th In the round, they challenged Arsenal away. Before that, their opponents were not very strong.

After the slaughter of Newcastle, some people even believe that it is the dream of countless teams to break the 58-game unbeaten record created by Capello under the leadership of AC Milan in such an excellent state.

However, when Fulham drew 0-0, the outside world began to shake their confidence, especially when they saw that they could not break Fulham's iron barrel formation, they issued a crumbling unbeaten record. regret.

There are even tactics that a lot of media comment on in the newspapers. The reporters talk about it as if they have become experts, and help the opponents there to defeat.

After playing Fulham, they still failed to get a chance to rest. The team set off for Prague to challenge Sparta Prague away. Mourinho fulfilled his previous commitment to young players in the League Cup, and several young players who performed well. All accompanied the team to the away game, among which Cesc Fabregas replaced Beckham as the team's starter.

The players are fighting in a row, and their physical fitness is a bit weak, especially Beckham. He has played in every game except the League Cup this season. He was exhausted by Fulham in the last round. The laboratory suggested to let him Rotation.

Cesc Fabregas' midfield partner is Essien, in front of him are Drogba, Ronaldinho, Messi and Kaka, behind him are Evra, Terry, Chiellini and Colo Toure , the goalkeeper is Cech.

Sparta Prague has performed very well in the Czech Republic this season, and they have maintained an unbeaten record so far. The captain is the former Manchester United abandoner Popowski, who was pressed on the bench after Beckham's rise. Let Bobowski originally wanted to touch Beckham again, but who knew that Beckham was left in Manchester by Mourinho.

However, in this game, Poboski did bring a lot of trouble to the left on the right. Evra was a little caught off guard in the face of this experienced and skilled veteran, but Mourinho The midfielder was quickly suppressed in a timely manner, which barely restrained Poboski.

However, Poboski still took advantage of a corner kick to assist his teammates with a header and scored a goal. Although before this, he took the lead with the goals of Drogba, Messi and Kaka, but Prague Sba Da's goal still caused cheers from the fans.

With a score of 1:3, they won the second victory of the group stage. In the other group match, Porto played against CSKA Moscow. With Fabiano scoring a goal, CSKA Moscow was tenacious in the second half. pulled back a goal and got a draw.

In this way, the two-game winning streak ranks first in Group H, CSKA Moscow, which has one win and one draw, ranks second, Porto, which has only one point from the two battles, ranks third, and Sparta Prague ranks last.

…………………… Back to Manchester from Prague, ushered in the arch-rivals Manchester City!

With Manchester United caught in the dispute of being acquired by the Glazer family in the United States, and Arsenal also attracting the attention of many American investors, in addition to Chelsea, there are also many teams in the Premier League that have attracted attention, among which the most eye-catching Undoubtedly, it is Manchester City.

Long before the Premier League kicked off, there was news that Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra intended to buy Liverpool, but Liverpool refused to accept the negotiation. In addition, the price of Liverpool was too high, Thaksin could not bear the pressure at all, and was forced to ask for something else. The goal.

After that, rumors of Thaksin's acquisition of Manchester City have been reported intermittently, but it has never been confirmed.

However, with the deepening of the season, there have been rumors that a Middle East consortium intends to acquire Premier League teams, including Arsenal, Liverpool, Everton, Tottenham, Manchester City and other teams.

To say that the attractiveness and influence of Premier League teams on funds is absolutely unmatched by other leagues. Even if Real Madrid just won the European Champions Cup, they are a member system and cannot be acquired. In addition, Barcelona is also a member system. Except for these two Besides the big class, which other team can compete with them? ㊣ Baidu search: ㊣\\\\, half@float ￥生\\\\//㊣

As for Serie A, the bad business environment has discouraged investment funds, and the Bundesliga has never been able to compare with the Premier League in terms of influence and operating conditions. Therefore, for those funds that intend to expand their influence through the football market, investing in the Premier League undoubtedly has huge temptation.

With the signing of the new broadcast contract, with the dazzling appearance of Abramovich after entering Chelsea, with the rise, the Premier League in the new season will undoubtedly be more eye-catching, and it has also attracted the attention of more investors.

According to what Xiao Yu has learned from the market, these millionaires who intend to invest in the Premier League basically come from two places, the United States and the Middle East. Funds from the United States are basically those who have been involved in the sports market before, or are operating The consortium of sports clubs, while the consortium in the Middle East is rushing for influence.

After the start of the new season, with the fierceness of the Premier League and the gathering of stars, the first league may still be controversial, but there is no doubt about the league with the most attention, and the Premier League has already discussed with each Premier League team. A series of improvement measures, among which are the various opinions put forward by Xiao Yu.

Starting from next season, the share of broadcast fees that mid- and lower-level teams in the Premier League can get will increase by a certain percentage, and the number of broadcasts they can get will also increase. profit.

In addition, there are a series of measures that are reforming in a good direction, which makes more and more investors interested in the Premier League, so there will be more and more consortia and rich people interested in the Premier League. The club put forward a willingness to buy.

The day before they challenged their arch-rival Manchester City at home, the Premier League team, which had moved out of Manchester for more than a year, officially announced that their club had been acquired by a consortium!