Starting from playing as a defensive midfielder for Real Madrid

Chapter 290 The winning streak ends, but we can look forward to winning the championship undefeated

After the game between Liverpool and Chelsea, the scene of Li Ang and Suarez hugging and talking on the court quickly became the focus of media reports.

There was no way, the almost identical inexplicable smiles on the two people's faces after they parted were really intriguing.

What makes the media even more curious and crazy is that they don't know what Li Ang said when he hugged Suarez.

Because Li Ang covered his mouth with his right hand the whole time when he spoke in Suarez's ear.

Therefore, even if they hired well-known lip reading experts, these British media could not decipher the conversation between Li Ang and Suarez.

In desperation, major sports media sent reporters one after another to interview the two parties involved.

As a result, the responses they received were surprisingly consistent.

"I told Louis that he performed very well today and that he was not the reason for the loss. Next time Liverpool comes to Stamford Bridge as a guest, I would like to invite him to have dinner with me. I admire his playing style."

"Leon comforted me after the game. He is a very good person. He also said that if he is free next time, he will treat me to dinner in London. I think we will become very good friends..."

Okay, now that we have talked about it, reporters also know that they will definitely not be able to dig out anything from these two people.

But this does not prevent them from seizing the opportunity to connect Suarez, who is currently uncomfortable in Liverpool, with Chelsea, the new overlord of the Premier League.

There is no doubt that Ibrahimovic is Chelsea's absolute main center now, but if Ibrahimovic continues to stay at Chelsea, he will be 34 years old at the beginning of next season. This is also a reality.

As a Premier League powerhouse that does not lack transfer funds and has great ambitions, it is very reasonable for Chelsea to consider Ibrahimovic's successor in advance.

Let’s look back at Suarez’s own conditions.

After many seasons in the Premier League, he has definitely adapted to the rhythm of the Premier League. He has no major injuries, has outstanding technical conditions, and is currently at the top level in the same position.

Suarez, who broke Cristiano Ronaldo's single-season scoring record after the Premier League reform with 32 league goals last season, undoubtedly has the ability to play for a giant.

What's more important is that he is still relatively young. The 27-year-old Suarez can still maintain his peak level for at least four seasons.

If, like Ibrahimovic, he can still perform as a top center at the age of 33, then Chelsea will make a huge profit by bringing him in.

Under this reasonable and logical conjecture, England's major and small sports newspapers do not care what Suarez and Chelsea officials say.

They polished the transfer scandal that fans love to hear and see, and then released it with great fanfare.

Of course, Liverpool FC quit the job first and quickly refuted the rumors.

Chelsea Club also issued a non-painful official statement some time later.

However, in this statement, Chelsea Club did not categorically express that it was not interested in Suarez.

The content seems to give Liverpool an explanation at best:

Don't worry, brother, we are definitely not flirting with your core players at the club level. We know that he has a contract with you, so even if we want to do something, we must give you a warning in advance...

The two clubs spoke out one after another, and Suarez's agent officially started after the international match day. Player-level responses were also given.

Anyway, it is the official formula, claiming to the outside world that players will focus on Liverpool and will never bypass Liverpool and other clubs for transfer communication.

This is indeed true. Chelsea officials did not contact Suarez and his economic team, but Li Ang gave a "hello" in advance.

Li Ang did not tell Suarez clearly whether it was he who wanted to join forces with Suarez on a whim, or whether he was assigned by the Chelsea club's senior management to contact Suarez.

There was a tacit understanding between the two parties, and as soon as the official announcement was issued, the so-called transfer scandal quickly subsided.

In the end, only the top management of Liverpool felt that something was wrong, but they couldn't say what was wrong, so they could only choose to continue to trust Suarez's feelings for Liverpool.

Fortunately, the arrival of the international match day can make this transfer scandal disappear before it takes shape and has an impact on Liverpool's subsequent league preparations.

The Premier League, which has gradually entered an intense period of points-grabbing battles, has also been able to cool down.

The two weeks of international matches are both painful and joyful for the stars who are on duty with the national team.

The coaching staff of each Premier League team also has sufficient time to review the team's previous performance in the league and make targeted tactical and lineup adjustments.

For example, Manchester United's head coach Louis van Gaal has already begun to formally establish his large circle tactics at this time, and has learned from the previous defeat against Chelsea to further improve his tactics.

Similarly, Professor Wenger is also thinking about how to further enhance the offensive strength of the frontcourt and build a more powerful arsenal around Cavani.

There is still some time before the winter window opens, but Wenger, who squeezed out a transfer fee from the board of directors, has already set his sights on the transfer market in advance...

For Guardiola and Mourinho, they do not need to make any major adjustments to the current lineup and team tactical structure.

What's more important is to review previous games and find out the execution problems of some players at the tactical level.

Of course, Guardiola has little interest in this winter window, mostly because his team currently only lacks powerful top superstars.

This type of player basically will not choose to make important transfer decisions in the winter window.

Even if he wants to spend money, Manchester City's top management is willing to spend it on him, but he will have to wait until Xia Chuang to lock in the target.

Based on this reason, Mourinho is not worried that Manchester City's large signings after the opening of the winter window will cause too many X factors to the pattern of the Premier League this season.

He also focused more on the upcoming European Cup qualifiers and national team friendly matches.

There is no way, now not only the famous stars in the Chelsea team will be called up by their respective national teams.

On this international break, Van Ginkel, Karas and Maguire were all selected for the national team roster.

Among them, Karas is still the absolute main force of the Czech team, and Maguire has a high probability of directly becoming England's starting central defender when he is selected for the national team for the first time.

This is not the fault of coach Hodgson.

Compared with Gary Cahill and Jagielka, the two current main central defenders in England.

The potential contained in Maguire is undoubtedly greater and worthy of investing game resources to cultivate.

In terms of their advantages in deep defense and high-altitude ball fights, Jagielka and Gary Cahill obviously have less advantages than Maguire.

Therefore, it is undoubtedly very important to train Maguire in advance and let him adapt to the national team's game rhythm.

After all, it is related to the results of the European Cup more than a year later.

In international competitions, if the offense is not good, you can still grind it down. If you can't score by conventional means, playing set kicks and considering overtime penalty shootouts are all feasible options.

But if you can't defend in a pit, you will definitely not reach the end.

Moreover, the tactical disadvantages caused by reusing Maguire are not a problem for the current England national team.

The double midfielder combination of Jordan Henderson and Milner is enough, at least it is enough to form an interception net in front of Maguire.

Although Mourinho does not want Maguire to be fucked to death by Huo Taigong and play too many games in the England national team.

But he never had the slightest concern about Maguire's ability to adapt to the England national team.

Compared with him who still needs to work overtime at the training base during the offseason, Li Ang is relatively free.

After four days of extra practice, Li Ang entered the box at Wembley Stadium on the evening of November 15th to cheer for his little brother on the spot for the first game of the national team.

The pre-match live broadcast cameras also repeatedly focused on Li Ang.

This is not the first time that Li Ang has gone to watch the England national team game.

So much so that the fans of the England national team at the scene were not surprised by this.

As soon as Li Ang's familiar handsome face appeared in the live broadcast, the fans at the scene would give enthusiastic cheers.

The commentator in England also half regretted and half jokingly called on the Football Association to contact Li Ang quickly and ask Li Ang to consider representing the England national team in major competitions.

At the end of the 2012-2013 season, a large number of media in Spain reported that the Spanish Football Association contacted Li Ang and wanted Li Ang to change his nationality and join the Spanish national team.

You must know that Spain had just completed three consecutive championships in international competitions at that time, and it was unparalleled in the limelight. However, their invitation was firmly rejected by Li Ang in the end.

Any commentator would feel sorry to see an outstanding superstar like Li Ang miss the World Cup and other international competitions.

In addition, the current England national team stars are not available, and what is missing is also a strong midfielder and on-field leader.

Therefore, it is understandable that English commentators will have wild imaginations and imagine that England's strength will greatly improve after Li Ang joins the England national team.

But the England fans in front of the TV still knew it.

After all, Li Ang turned a blind eye to the signs of the Spanish national team in the past two years and would rather not play in the World Cup than change his nationality.

Why would the England national team, which is currently in a rebuilding period, agree to call someone up?

Just because of that ridiculous nickname of "European Chinese Team"?

It’s better to go to sleep, you can have everything in your dreams, don’t daydream in reality...

Li Ang didn't know that his simple appearance at the scene aroused the imagination of the England national team commentator.

He came to Wembley to watch the game today, firstly because his girlfriend went back to Huaguo University to attend classes, and he just finished extra training recently and had nothing else to do.

The second reason is that in addition to his teammates such as Gary Cahill, Bertrand and Lampard, the England team now has his little brother Maguire.

I happened to be watching the game in London, so I thought I should come over to cheer up my teammates.

At 6pm London time, the European Cup qualifying match between England and Slovenia officially started.

With the exception of Gary Cahill, who is on standby as a substitute, the remaining three Chelsea players selected for the England national team all started.

Maguire and Bertrand teamed up to take charge of England's defense on the backcourt, with Lampard also serving as the left midfielder.

It is no exaggeration to say that these three Chelsea players support half of England's backcourt.

In the game scene, the England national team, which started with 4231 today, firmly controlled the game situation.

At least in terms of midfield organization and defensive end, England did not give Slovenia any opportunities to take advantage of.

In the end, with goals from Rooney, Welbeck and Lallana, England defeated Slovenia 3-0 at home.

Maguire was always protected by two defensive midfielders in front of him, and he played bravely in this game.

Faced with Slovenia's high-flying offensive tactics in the second half, Maguire directly used the data of seven successful top attempts to defeat the Slovenian forwards.

That is to say, he was a little unlucky on the offensive end of the corner kick in the second half and hit the goal post. Otherwise, Maguire may have directly scored the first goal in his first game with the national team.

Such offensive and defensive performance naturally earned Maguire unanimous praise from all English fans after the game.

Huo Taigong even bluntly said that Maguire will grow into the new Terry of the England national team in the next two seasons.

This kind of evaluation is not low.

When Li Ang left Wembley Stadium after the game, he was stopped by reporters for interviews, and he kept giving thumbs up to the camera and praising his little brother.

"Well done, brilliant Maguire!"

After the international break, Maguire, who returned to the Cobham training base to report, was teased by his teammates.

Terry even went into battle himself and agreed to give Maguire the nickname "Little Terry", which made Maguire blush.

However, in the 12th round of the Premier League on the afternoon of November 22, Mourinho did not comply with the call from the English media before the game and continued to send Maguire, who was in excellent form, to start.

In other words, Chelsea's main players who have played two consecutive rounds of national team matches basically did not start in this league match between Chelsea and West Bromwich Albion.

The well-rested Terry teamed up with Gary Cahill to directly block West Bromwich Albion's counterattack.

And when Li Ang scored from long range in the 23rd minute of the first half, helping Chelsea take the lead early.

Chelsea, who were rotating, could still easily win another league victory at home.

The final score was not big, a mediocre 2-0.

Li Ang and Ibrahimovic scored in the first and second half respectively, and Chelsea's ridiculously stable defense also caused West Bromwich Albion to suffer a bloody blow.

Just two days after the end of this round of the league, Mourinho went to Germany with young players from the youth training and a small number of substitute players.

In the fifth round of the Champions League group stage, Chelsea, who were purely training, stayed in the Schalke Arena for 90 minutes, and they even managed to get to one point!

The central defender combination of Maguire and Karas once again shined in the audience, and they were stunned to prevent Schalke 04's offensive group from breaking through!

Sporting Lisbon, which defeated Schalke 04 in the last round of the Champions League group stage, was absolutely delighted with the result.

Originally with four points, they defeated Maribor 3-1 in this round of the Champions League group stage, and now have seven points.

After five rounds of the group stage, they were two points ahead of Schalke 04 and successfully overtook them to second place in the group!

In the final round of the group stage, Schalke 04 challenged Maribor away from home, and they also had to challenge Chelsea away from home.

The schedule is undoubtedly more favorable to them.

Now Chelsea players, who have no desire for the final match of the Champions League group, have focused all their attention on the following Premier League and EFL Cup matches.

After tying with Schalke 04, Chelsea's winning streak this season has been interrupted.

However, Chelsea's players were mentally prepared for this day and did not feel any regrets.

It is simply a fantasy to win all the third-tier or even fourth-tier competitions and win the championship in the season.

It's definitely impossible to keep winning, but at least I haven't suffered a defeat yet.

So Chelsea players began to consider the possibility of another thing.

This season, the fourth team is undefeated and won the championship. Is there a way to start? !

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