Midfielder

Chelsea's two warm-up matches ended with the strong performance of Lin Yi and Lampard. Although there are many suspense in the lineup, their fighting desire has been completely ignited. When the curtain of the Premier League opens, these guys will definitely become the headaches of all competitors.

Kenyon is not worried about whether these guys can be combined into a team now, because Mourinho's ability to control is beyond his imagination.

In the two warm-up matches, the personnel structure was switched back and forth, but there was no sense of awkwardness between them, and the operation of the whole team gradually stabilized.

No matter who is on the court, Mourinho's strict tactical arrangement can be implemented. Whether attacking or defending, everyone can do their job.

Especially in defense, in these two games, not only the offensive players in the front court are sharper than last season, but also the back line is solid.

Neither Metz nor Lorient have the opportunity to tear a gap in Chelsea's defense. Carvalho and Terry's defense is solid and fierce.

Moreover, the defense of the two wingers was also excellent. The Frenchman didn't even get a few chances to pass the ball from the bottom. Even if he barely passed it, it was ridiculous. Mourinho wanted to bring the individual abilities of each player to the extreme in his strict tactical system.

Cech showed his strength as a goalkeeper, blocking high and low, so that the football always roamed outside the goal line and couldn't get into the goal as he wished.

Seeing his goalkeeper perform so well, even Mourinho had to thank Ranieri for his good work. After all, it was Cech who advocated signing him.

It's just that the old Italian man couldn't enjoy the powerful performance of this Czech goalkeeper. I really don't know how he felt when he saw this scene.

Makelele's iron waist also set up a natural barrier for Chelsea in the midfield, frequently attacking and continuously blocking the opponent's passing route.

Mourinho needs him to be in such a fierce state. The defensive midfielder, the position that needs the most interceptors, must have a strong heart to guard.

Now Kenyon doesn't have to worry about the team's defense. Although Mourinho is Portuguese, he is much more stable than Ranieri.

At least he can adjust the team's defense in a month. Even if it's just a warm-up match, the players know to fight hard.

In terms of influence on players, Ranieri is indeed not at the same level as Mourinho. Sometimes a good person is not necessarily suitable to be a commander.

A serious guy like Mourinho can make a significant change in the temperament of the whole team. At least no one dares to make trouble easily.

Although Mourinho didn't choose between Lin Yi and Lampard who would be the main player on the return flight, he was quite satisfied with the situation of the other players. After 30 days of physical and tactical adjustments, the state of the whole team has gotten rid of the negative effects brought by the European Championship.

Whether in terms of physical reserve or technical and tactical running-in, these guys have been able to make a big change from the beginning of the training camp.

No one dares to be a thorn in this time, otherwise they will be like Smerkin, who sat in the stands in depression in the two warm-up matches.

Mourinho has used this trick of killing the chicken to scare the monkeys, indirectly warning everyone that this is no longer the era of Ranieri, and he is not easy to mess with.

Fair, strict, and with a strong sense of tactics when commanding off the court, this vigorous and resolute temperament affects every Chelsea player.

Moreover, in these two warm-up matches, the competitive atmosphere made everyone in the team very desperate, but no one dared to show slackness at this time.

Even veterans like Makelele, who do not need to worry about their main status, have never been lazy in the game, and they still perform very hard.

Mourinho is worried about selecting his main lineup, but this can only be regarded as a sweet worry, at least he still has people to use.

Although choosing one person from here to be the core will indeed make him restless at night, he is lucky compared to those coaches who have no one available. Now Chelsea can be said to be absolutely strong and powerful. No matter which position, there are enough substitutes to play.

This alone is enough to make other Premier League teams envious. Which head coach dares to pat his chest and say that he is not afraid of injuries?

Perhaps except Mourinho's Chelsea team, no team has this confidence. This is the benefit of Kenyon's money everywhere.

Especially the level of these guys, everyone is not much different, which allows Mourinho to have enough personnel to rotate in the middle of the league.

It is impossible for you to always maintain a strong competitive state in a long season, but enough substitutes can make up for this defect.

Now there may be no Premier League team that dares to compare the depth of the bench with Chelsea. You know, they even have a lot of international players sitting in the stands.

What is luxury? You should know when you look at Chelsea. They probably almost filled their reserve team with all kinds of big names.

This is what Mourinho said. In his opinion, a properly functioning team has 21 healthy players, which is enough. There is no need to keep the team in an overstaffed state all the time. Not only will it cause not all the players to play on the field, but it will also waste many people and destroy internal unity.

After all, some people don't come to Chelsea just for the salary. They also want to create their own history at Stamford Bridge, and they also want to play the main role.

If Mourinho had not stopped Kenyon in time, it is estimated that the guy would have continued to cast a wide net, recruiting players from all over the European leagues. Anyway, Abramovich did not set any upper limit for him this time. The Russians are ready to risk their lives in exchange for the championship trophy.

You know, Abramovich once asked Mourinho privately if he needed Kaka and Zidane to join. If necessary, he could pay the liquidated damages required by the other team. Even if it was a sky-high price, he would not be reluctant to spend it. This money, but this guy's boldness was suppressed by Mourinho in time.

"You only need one star here, and that's me!" Mourinho doesn't want any unruly guys to appear under him.

Especially after two games with Real Madrid, the news that broke out in the opponent's camp made Mourinho have a wait-and-see attitude towards recruiting big names.

One or two big names may not necessarily play a decisive role in winning or losing on the court, but they will have a devastating blow to the order in the locker room.

Mourinho does not want to fill the locker room with uncertainties, and he believes that he has enough soldiers and does not need to add more.

What team is this? From top to bottom, he is almost a national player. Even though Lin Yi is not a national player, he seems to be more dangerous than others.

Mourinho will never worry about the players' injuries now. Anyway, he has enough chess pieces in his hands and can replenish personnel at any time.

Compared with him, Sir Alex is obviously not so relaxed and comfortable now, especially when the Premier League is about to start, he is a little worried.

Although he has secured strong support like Rooney in the transfer market, the age structure of the entire Manchester United team does not satisfy Sir Alex.

The old are old, the young are small, and they lack enough backbone, especially when Giggs and Scholes began to gradually decline from their competitive peak.

Except for the old guys like Keane, there is no absolute core on the field. This is what Ferguson is most worried about now. Among the young players of the entire Manchester United team, there is no qualified leader. If the veterans All injured, Manchester United will fall into a leaderless situation.

It's impossible to let Ferguson go on the field and play football by himself. His command ability on the sidelines is undoubted, but don't expect his roar to replace everything.

Moreover, in Manchester United's forward line, Ruud van Nistelrooy's state has been very unstable, with major and minor injuries, which has been bothering this guy all summer.

In the pre-season training camp, the unlucky Dutch striker fell on the turf again. The team doctor's diagnosis made Ferguson unable to worry about it.

"It will take at least three weeks of rest. This is the most conservative estimate." Although the team doctor knew that Sir Alex was disgusted to hear this, he had to tell the truth.

three weeks! This is still the most conservative estimate! Although the old gentleman didn't glare immediately, his expression had already betrayed his thoughts.

After Ferguson returned to the office, he already had a sad look on his face. Before the new season even started, he had already lost one of his strong forwards.

Without the most stable scoring point in the frontcourt, I really don't know if I can support my appearance just by relying on young guys like Rooney and Ronaldo.

He knew very well how weak his first opponent was, although the Manchester United team in training showed a good competitive state.

Young people like Rooney and Ronaldo who have just joined the team have shown strong upward momentum in the last two or three warm-up games.

Especially Rooney, a stocky little fat guy, has scored three goals in a row in the last two warm-up games, and his state is indeed a bit hot.

Although Lin Yi also played a beautiful game in France, many British media were still very happy to give their votes of confidence to their own people.

After all, Rooney is still the international player of the England team, so he can be regarded as his own child, and many of these people hate Chelsea very much.

Therefore, no matter how well Lin Yi performs in the warm-up match, they will selectively ignore it, or try to brag about it for Stamford Bridge as little as possible.

"Rooney will definitely use facts to prove that Manchester United has done a good business, and he will make the money spent by the club very valuable."

This was Ferguson's unstinting boast when talking about his proud achievements during the transfer period. Perhaps he wanted to give the little fat man more confidence.

What can we do otherwise? Now no one except this little fat man can support Manchester United's forward line, and Ruud van Nistelrooy must lie in bed.

Before the return of the Dutch killer, Manchester United's front line seems to be Home Alone, and Rooney is more reliable than others.

Although Manchester United now has Rooney on the front line, it always feels like there is a little lack of stability with just this fledgling little fat guy paired with Saha and Alan Smith. At least Ferguson will not be naive to think so. , this combination can be more efficient than Ruud van Nistelrooy.

If these guys together can contribute the terrifying goal efficiency of Ruud last season, Ferguson will already feel grateful.

After all, forwards who can score more than 30 goals in a season are not so easy to find. The main reason is that not many have the stable performance of Ruud Ruud.

Especially Saha, this guy has been in a state of convulsion since the end of last season, and he will have a goal drought for no reason.

Solskjaer's old injury has troubled this baby-faced man for a long time. It is not realistic to expect him to have a big improvement in the near future.

Now the old Sir Alex has to grab people from Manchester United's youth training camp, but Manchester United's youth training is not his 92nd class. There are not many people available. Most of the young players can only show their prowess in the League Cup after being selected, and the rest of the time they are on the bench.

At this time, Ferguson was so angry when he thought of Lin Yi that his teeth were itching, especially when compared with the group of boys under his command, he felt even more depressed.

"Alas, when will my Carrington have such a monster?" Looking at his own youth team, alas, this is not an ordinary gap.

Now thinking about meeting that kid in the first round of the game, Ferguson was melancholy. He really didn't want to see Lin Yi, the bastard, play.

In the two games of the Champions League last season, this kid almost broke Manchester United's defense, and he didn't want to experience this feeling again.

Especially after watching this kid's warm-up match in France, Ferguson felt more and more that this kid was the most dangerous in the entire Chelsea team.

"What the hell! If this kid was in my hands, how well he would play with Ronaldo and Rooney!", but this can only be assumed. Now Ferguson must be fully prepared for the first battle in the Premier League. It is not only a test for Mourinho, but also for Manchester United.

If they lose to the same opponent again, it will definitely be a devastating blow to Manchester United, and to Ferguson himself.

The club was already in an unstable situation. If the team's performance did not improve, Ferguson did not know what Manchester United would become.

The rumored acquisition trend has gradually become a reality. Ferguson has been worried about the transfer fee throughout the summer. Although he was able to spend a large sum of money to snatch Rooney from Everton, it is unlikely that Manchester United will find another supplement in the already frenzied transfer market.

Otherwise, Ferguson would not have to spend so much time every day to polish the guys from the youth team for the problem of team personnel.

A good cook cannot cook without rice. This time Ferguson has also gone through a difficult time, all because of Chelsea's trouble in the transfer market.

Kenyon will bid for any player that Ferguson likes, and it will be much higher than Manchester United's offer, which makes Ferguson very angry.

But this can't change anything, because Kenyon is messing with these competitors. Even if he doesn't need the player, he will raise the price at will.

Those clubs and players themselves seem to be indifferent to this approach. Anyway, it doesn't affect them much. The higher the price, the more beneficial it is to them.

This posed a problem for Ferguson. He couldn't spend so much money on the people he wanted to buy, because those clubs were just taking advantage of the situation.

After all the delays, Manchester United only got a valuable player like Rooney throughout the summer, and the overall strength remained unchanged.

Even Manchester United fans are worried whether their team can continue to dominate the Premier League or whether the Manchester United dynasty has already faded.

But the two rounds of confrontation with Chelsea last season have made Ferguson realize how strong that gold-dollar team is. If the head coach at the time was not Ranieri, perhaps Manchester United would not have taken any advantage at all, but now his opponent is not the Italian.

Mourinho's lightning joining in the summer not only took Lin Yi away from Manchester United, but also created a new opponent for Ferguson.

The pain of Porto's two games against Manchester United has not yet dissipated from the hearts of those Manchester people, and now he is standing in front of them again.

Many teams, including Ferguson, are wary of what the Portuguese has done in London, and Chelsea, with its increasingly strong lineup, has also made the old Sir Alex start to target the other side with intelligence wars and verbal wars. Now even Arsenal has been placed in the second most dangerous position by Ferguson.

Unfortunately, the first battle of the new season arranged by God for Manchester United happened to be against the team that Ferguson listed as the number one rival.

Although many Manchester media are advocating that this is a revenge battle arranged by God, Ferguson knows that this confrontation is not so easy to deal with, especially at the opponent's home court, and the running-in of his own team is far from reaching a tacit understanding, which is a big trouble.

Many media are paying attention to the first round of the Premier League this season. In the eyes of many people, this is a great opportunity for Manchester United to maintain its authority.

Especially since the opponent has just experienced a major blood change, if they can seize the opportunity when the opponent is not yet stable and overturn Chelsea heavily, then Manchester United's Premier League journey this season may become much easier. If they can win this game, they will have a psychological advantage.

But the premise of all this is winning. Ferguson doesn't think that the Portuguese will give up easily. The old Sir Alex knows what kind of person the other party is.

For both sides, this game is a battlefield where they cannot retreat a step. . .

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