Starting from playing as a defensive midfielder for Real Madrid

Halfway through this season's Premier League, Chelsea's championship result was actually expected by many people.

It's not that Chelsea's competitors are not strong enough. Compared with previous years, Manchester City and Arsenal actually have very good records this year.

It can only be said that Chelsea's efficiency in harvesting points so far is really scary.

Manchester City has made serious mistakes in recent rounds. After losing points one after another, they still scored a total of 76 points.

With five rounds left in the league, Manchester City even hopes to push their season points to more than 90 points. This performance cannot be said to be bad.

It's just that Chelsea's points have reached 92 points with six rounds of league games left, and they are aiming to break 100 points this season.

This performance is a complete dimensionality reduction blow to other Premier League teams.

And with the lineup foreseen to not change significantly, Chelsea will still maintain considerable dominance in the Premier League next season.

This is the current situation that is even more troublesome for several other powerful teams in the Premier League.

If you want to compete with Chelsea, you must continue to increase your investment.

Because spending a wave of money is not enough, you must spend enough transfer fees in two or three transfer windows to have the opportunity to introduce enough top football players to complete the lineup replacement.

And it seems that Manchester City is currently the only team in the Premier League that has the strength and financial foundation to continue fighting with Chelsea.

The big boss of Liverpool is rich, but his investment is very rational, and he has no so-called tycoon style at all. In the short term, it is unlikely that Liverpool will rise rapidly.

The situation at Arsenal is even more complicated.

The big boss and the second boss both have money, but both want to swallow up the other's shares.

Before they fully took control of the club, the two tycoons were afraid of making wedding dresses for each other, so they were reluctant to increase their investment.

As for Manchester United, emm... forget it, there is nothing to talk about. The Red Devils are just a commercial club disguised as a football club now.

When it comes to making money and the mentality of its fans, Manchester United is very good at it.

But when it comes to football results, Manchester United is currently at the top of their game. That is to say, if they are just hanging around in the top four of the Premier League, they can't even think about winning the league championship.

Overall, Chelsea is really in a good time now.

Several ambitious clubs in the league are unable to increase investment for one reason or another. The only serious opponent is Manchester City.

With continued investment in the subsequent transfer windows, Manchester City's strength will continue to grow.

Perhaps after two seasons, they will really have the ability to compete with Chelsea.

But at least next season, Chelsea is still confident that it can suppress Manchester City and continue to dominate the Premier League.

The reason is simple. Even if they introduce enough big-name players, Manchester City still needs at least half a season to adjust to the new lineup.

Manchester City's coaching staff knows this very well.

Even if their goal is to knock Chelsea off the Premier League hegemony, they will need to endure it for at least another season.

Chelsea's players certainly understand this.

So even though they once again suppressed Manchester City in advance and successfully won the Premier League championship, they did not get carried away and celebrated.

Happy emotions and a slight sense of crisis appeared in the hearts of Chelsea players at the same time.

If Chelsea's whole team only has a short-term goal of winning the championship, then now they can celebrate wildly.

But to aim for three consecutive championships, Chelsea's players have to take a longer view and have to think more at the moment of winning the championship.

Mourinho did not put too much psychological pressure on the players. At least at this moment, he still hopes that his disciples can purely enjoy the joy of winning the championship.

For next season, their coaching staff will make preparations in advance during the offseason.

Only when the players' mentality is relaxed can the team move more smoothly and go further.

The night after winning the championship in advance, Mourinho directly gave all the team players a day off.

Even though the preparation time is still relatively tight at this stage, Chelsea will soon face the second leg of the Champions League quarter-finals with Juventus, but Mourinho still gave him time off.

At the celebration banquet that night, the players in the Chelsea team were very happy, and the bonus given in advance by the big boss Abramovich also made the atmosphere extremely hot.

But after the dinner, one by one of the main players of Chelsea's first team basically chose to go home and rest.

In the afternoon of the next day, which was supposed to be a wonderful holiday, almost all the young players in the Chelsea team consciously returned to the training base and started recovery training.

This surprised the Chelsea coaching staff, and after the surprise, it was replaced by a strong sense of pride!

"What great boys! If we can't have the last laugh this year, then I really won't be able to let go! Jose, they deserve all the championship honors!"

Standing in the office, Holland looked at the young Chelsea players who spontaneously organized a collective warm-up on the training ground, and his words were a little excited.

Mourinho smiled and said nothing. He would not be so full of words. After all, any season result in the football world is reasonable. This is the greatest charm of football.

He will try his best to lead this group of outstanding young men to the top of football.

No matter how this summer ends, at least he will not let himself, let alone his disciples, have any regrets.

And he also believes that God and destiny will always treat every team that strives forward fairly.

You have given everything, and what you get in the end is the result you deserve.

"They will get the fairest result... Let's start working! We must also try our best to make more preparations. Come on, continue to review the second round match against Juventus..."

At the Cobham training base, Chelsea's players and coaching staff are making their pre-match preparations.

They, or the powerful players who have reached this point in the Champions League, do not have enough time to prepare for the game.

Two days later, the second leg of the Champions League quarter-finals started again!

This time, Chelsea became the last team to appear.

On the evening of April 21st, after the brutal battle ended, Bayern defeated Dortmund 3-1 in two rounds and entered the top four of this season's Champions League.

There were no surprises for Real Madrid, and they eliminated Manchester City 5-3 in the final two rounds, seizing another seat in the semi-finals of this season's Champions League!

On the evening of April 22, Chelsea and Juventus, Arsenal and Atletico Madrid appeared together.

In the last round of the battle, Atletico Madrid won 1-0 at Arsenal's home court, which was exactly the same score as Chelsea's victory over Juventus.

With Manchester City already eliminated, Chelsea and Arsenal, two teams from London, have become the last teams in the Premier League.

In this round of competition, Arsenal went to Spain to challenge Atletico Madrid, which seemed to be in danger.

Because Atletico Madrid has never lost at home this season, the Calderon Stadium has buried the bones of Real Madrid and Barcelona one after another in La Liga.

In the Champions League, the powerful players from all walks of life who went to the Calderon Stadium to challenge could not get even half a cent here.

Even for the most die-hard Arsenal fans, it is difficult for them to have much confidence in their team's reversal at this time.

On the contrary, Chelsea, which will face the challenge of Juventus at Stamford Bridge tonight, has won the favor of too many neutral fans.

At 19:45 in the evening, two Champions League battles started simultaneously in London and Madrid.

With the tragic thought of a last-ditch effort, Arsenal launched a desperate charge against Atletico Madrid at the Calderon Stadium.

At Stamford Bridge, Chelsea calmly put up a fence, waiting for Juventus to bump into them and fall into their tactical trap.

For Uncle Jon, in this round of competition, he had to be congenitally passive at the tactical level.

Because no matter what kind of opening design he makes, Juventus must eventually embark on the path of active offense.

The game time is only 90 minutes, and if a goal is scored, Juventus will have the confidence to drag Chelsea into overtime.

In this game, as long as Juventus can score two goals, Chelsea will be completely passive!

Therefore, even if he wanted to seek stability, Allegri could not slowly kill the game time with Chelsea.

It will be more advantageous for Juventus to play this game out!

The same 442 starting formation as in the previous round was adopted, but Juventus played much more aggressively in this game.

Chelsea gave up their most played 433 this season and returned to their classic formation of 4231 last season.

However, Mourinho still did not let Li Ang retreat to the midfielder position, and together with Matic formed a sweeping combination with the most prominent defensive role.

In this game, Matic and Kroos were behind, and Li Ang still served as the attacking midfielder.

From this arrangement, it is easy to see what the Chelsea coaching staff is thinking today.

Of course, defense must be defended, but Chelsea will not be passive to the end. If Li Ang presses forward, he must counterattack Juventus.

In order to better achieve the tactical effect of rapid advancement on both wings, Mourinho did not even start De Bruyne in this game.

With Hazard on the left and Salah on the right, Chelsea has maximized the counterattack speed on both wings.

In the middle, Ibrahimovic is still very capable of playing ball.

Just thinking about this forward and midfield configuration, you can probably estimate how big the threat of counterattack is.

Juventus fans were sweating in their hands from the beginning of the game.

Today, Li Ang did not deliberately restrict Pirlo's performance, so Juventus started quickly on the offensive end.

Compared with the offensive on both wings, Juventus's strong rushing ability in the middle is obviously more powerful.

Morata has assumed the role of tactical fulcrum very well.

Tevez, Vidal, and even Pogba can use his tactical cover to better attack the Chelsea defense.

Matic has competed with Vidal many times in the previous round.

He knows the versatility of Chile's midfield and its ability to explode on the offensive end.

Therefore, he also put more defensive attention on Vidal, who has a considerable range of activities.

The defense against Pogba was naturally a little lax, which resulted in Chelsea's defensive passivity in the opening stages of the game.

As soon as Pogba started to exert his strength, he used his personal ability to hit long-range shots from outside the Chelsea penalty area or send overhead passes to deliver cannonballs to Tevez.

That is to say, my sister-in-law was in great form today. In the 7th minute of the opening game, she blocked Tevez's shot from close range.

Otherwise, if Juventus grabs the start and wants to equalize the score as soon as possible, it might actually come true!

Such a passive situation made Mourinho frown.

Fortunately, both Marcos and Kroos are very smart midfielders.

The two discussed and quickly adjusted their defensive strategy. Cross expanded to guard Pogba alone. If he couldn't guard him, he directly used personal fouls to prevent him from advancing.

Matic still stayed put and occupied his position first, interfering with Vidal's advance into the penalty area.

After this adjustment, the effect of Juventus's strong attack at the beginning was immediately greatly reduced.

Although Li Ang is in the midfield and frontcourt, he still observes the defense of the backcourt very carefully.

Seeing that Maggie and Kroos stabilized the midfield defense, he was not in a hurry to retreat to assist the defense.

In the 12th minute of the first half, his patient waiting finally resulted in Chelsea's first threatening counterattack.

Matic successfully stole the ball from Vidal, and Cross immediately sent a long pass to Li Ang after receiving the ball!

Pirlo decisively returned to defense, and Marchisio stepped up, but was knocked away by Li Ang's arrogant turn after receiving the ball!

After holding the ball and advancing to the front of Juventus' defensive zone 3, Li Ang quickly transferred the ball to his right.

After getting the ball, Salah decisively chose to speed up and directly use his speed advantage to get rid of Evra!

It's just that the cross he sent at the end was a little less interesting.

Ibrahimovic failed to grab a point, and Li Ang had not successfully penetrated into the Juventus penalty area at this time. Bonucci, who missed the ball, pushed the ball back to the midfielder.

Chelsea's first threatening counterattack failed, but the counterattack process still came out.

Li Ang also gave Salah an encouraging thumbs up.

The rhythm of the game then returned to the mode of Juventus attacking and Chelsea defending.

Only 10 minutes later did Chelsea have their second counterattack opportunity of the game.

This time, Li Ang faked a shot through movement and took away Pogba and Pirlo in the Juventus midfielder. Kroos was able to successfully insert the ball with the ball!

However, in this counterattack, Cross did not pass the ball to Salah, and TK still trusted Hazard more.

Upon seeing this, Li Ang decisively moved to the left to support Hazard's advance.

However, Hazard was also very confident. He made two constant changes of direction and accelerated his position on the wing. After getting rid of Lichtsteiner's marking, he decisively cut inside the Juventus penalty area!

Ibrahimovic also used his movement to help Hazard open up shooting space.

However, when faced with Bonucci's marking, Hazard did not shoot immediately, but chose to fake a shot and actually dunk!

His smart fake moves completely threw off Bonucci's defense!

Perhaps he was too hasty, but Bonucci turned around and chased after two steps, then immediately chose to tackle and intercept!

This caused Hazard, who had already adjusted his steps and was about to volley into the far corner, to fall into the Juventus penalty area!

Suddenly, Juventus' penalty area became the most lively area on the field.

Chelsea's players raised their arms and shouted to the referee, but Juventus' players waved their hands to signal Hazard to dive.

Bonucci was still lying on the turf at this time, feeling too guilty to get up.

The referee on duty did not hesitate too much. After receiving the linesman's prompt, he blew his whistle, pointed at the penalty spot in the Juventus penalty area, and also showed a yellow card to Bonucci who was lying on the ground!

"Bonucci made a big mistake! He paid the price for his lack of composure and Chelsea got a very good penalty kick opportunity!"

The commentator of England's Sky Sports almost burst into cheers at this moment.

Li Ang took the football handed over by Kroos and strolled to the penalty spot, ignoring the verbal interference from the Juventus players around him.

"Boy, I'm watching you! I know which way you're going to kick, I know it!"

Buffon was still chattering a little, but he didn't seem nervous at all. Instead, he was very relaxed and jumped left and right in preparation.

Li Ang also ignored the football senior. After putting the ball on the penalty spot, he took a deep breath and backed away slowly.

The waiting time was not long, and perhaps there was no exciting inner monologue in the hearts of Li Ang and Buffon.

What they have is absolute belief in their own strength!

Li Ang volleyed hard without hesitation and took the penalty kick. Buffon also made a very determined save in the direction of his judgment!

The two completed a silent and exciting duel at this moment!

Li Ang kicked the ball to the right side of the Juventus goal, in the same direction as Buffon's save.

But this time, his angle was even more tricky!

The football hit the post on the right side of the Juventus goal and was eventually bounced into the net. Buffon was probably only less than one centimeter away from touching the football with his fingertips!

A heaven, a hell.

When all the Chelsea players celebrated the goal with great enthusiasm.

In the Juventus penalty area, Buffon was slapping the turf angrily. Chiellini and Lichtsteiner also had their hands on their waists, with helpless eyes!

A few minutes further forward, Atletico Madrid also successfully scored a goal at home, currently leading Arsenal with a total score of 2-0.

Two stadiums, the same score, but for the two powerful teams in London, they are in completely different situations at this moment.

Arsenal is drifting away, heading towards the end of their Champions League journey this season.

Chelsea, as the last hope of the Premier League, has also entered the final stage of the Champions League.