Chapter 1259: Chapter 1259
Chapter 1259: Chapter 379: The Duke’s Ambition
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“Kevin has completely secured the championship for Chelsea, such a goal is indisputable, even the twelfth man of Barca today couldn’t blow off Kevin’s goal.”
“In the history of football, there has been a team that once won five consecutive Champions League titles.”
“But that was a special historical period, at that time many giants did not participate in the Champions League, there weren’t as many teams competing, and the tournament format wasn’t as challenging as it is now. Even so, winning the Champions League for five consecutive years is a great achievement.”
“Because the Champions League format has been constantly improving, and the Champions League has been expanding, there has been an ongoing argument over the years that no team will ever replicate the glory of Real Madrid.”
“However, Kevin has achieved something greater than Real Madrid. After defending with Milan, he transferred to Real Madrid, and after defending with Real Madrid, he joined Chelsea. Kevin won the Champions League for five consecutive years as a player, but with three different clubs and different teammates around him.”
“This also successfully certifies one thing: it wasn’t Milan or Real Madrid winning the Champions League; it was Kevin bringing the Champions League to Milan and Real Madrid. Now, this honor will belong to Chelsea in just 30 minutes.”
“Chelsea will become the first European champion in the football city of London, and they will become the second treble winner in the United Kingdom after Manchester United. More importantly, in a week, they will become the first quadruple winner in English history!”
“One person is comparable to the best club of the last century, one person achieved the greatest accomplishment in football, one person conquered the highest level in the world of football and completed a monopoly. It’s hard for me to assess Kevin’s historical position because I’m simply not worthy, and neither is anyone else. Football has always been a game of the strong, not of the older. We can’t think that someone’s historical standing is higher just because they were born earlier.”
“The scandals in the British Royal Family are ongoing, and Charles doesn’t seem excellent.”
“I think William would be a good successor because he is the royal family member who has watched Kevin the most live matches! Just for this reason, he is ten thousand times better than Harry!”
“I was always worried that Kevin might choose to retire directly. After watching today’s match, I feel Kevin is getting closer to hanging up his boots. If this really happens, Busacca, Platini, and UEFA will bear full responsibility. They betrayed God for a few pieces of silver; each one of them deserves to be on the gallows!!!”
Outside the Stadio Olimpico Rome, some fans had already gathered.
The Rome police were nervously maintaining the order on site.
Apart from personal wishes, they also hoped Chelsea could win because of their work needs.
Otherwise, they couldn’t guarantee what might happen in the City of Rome today.
The match wasn’t over yet, but Barca players’ morale had already hit rock bottom.
Guardiola stood on the sidelines with his face scrunched up, completely unable to think of a good strategy.
Today Chelsea missing a player still left them with no opportunity, the biggest reason was Chelsea’s extremely disjointed formation!
Normally speaking, football is a sport that tries to link the defense, midfield, and forward lines together, with the goalkeeper’s ability to play the ball becoming increasingly important, incorporating the goal line into the whole. This is the trend.
Contrarily, it is the one-on-one individual heroism.
Today’s Chelsea was completely different from Barca’s football.
They coordinated from Valdes to the front-most Eto’o as one complete whole.
Chelsea, on the other hand, took individual heroism to the extreme.
They could all, except the goalkeeper, press towards the front, but Chelsea’s three midfielders at most had two pushing forward, and many times only Ballack himself.
Receiving the ball meant a long pass from the backfield.
Ramos and Cech’s distribution from the back was excellent today, they never passed the ball to the defensive line, so Barca’s only height advantage couldn’t be demonstrated, Huang Kaiwen and Huntelaar could easily reach and collect the ball in the front field.
This style of play by Chelsea, whether in midfield battles or front-field organization, was at a disadvantage.
But Huang Kaiwen completely leveled this disadvantage with his individual ability.
Not thinking of a solution, he could only let Pedro go to the sidelines, make substitutions to strengthen the attack and test his luck.
After the excitement, Mourinho called Terry and Essien over to the sidelines.
Their addresses were enough to show Mourinho’s charisma.
“I’m telling you, this is the most damn glorious moment of your lives, you will overcome unfairness and prejudice, and win the most valuable Champions League Trophy!”
Mourinho said, putting an arm around each: “The next is the most important, you all know this referee has a problem, so we can’t let him do as he pleases.”
“Do you need us to take him down?”
Essien asked seriously, making a throat-slashing gesture at Mourinho.
If Mourinho nodded, he really would dare to send the referee to the hospital.
He, José Mourinho is a second-generation official, not a second-generation gangster!
Essien is great in every way, just too straightforward.
Mourinho quickly shook his head and said: “I mean for you to delay as much time as possible, seek opportunities to go down when there is physical contact, but make sure it’s in a dead-ball situation, otherwise the referee might not call it, also with leg cramps, at corner kicks, or like Kevin carrying the ball in the front… In any case, I need you to use all means to delay time, facing an unfair match, we don’t always have to stand and play, learn to go down, understand?”