The biggest fanatic in football

Chapter 621 My physical fitness is not good!

Marina and Emenaro finally did not dare to complain to Abu.

They know better than anyone that they can securely hold senior positions under Abramovich.

Not only were there no complaints, their work efficiency was unprecedentedly efficient. After the meeting on August 2, they received the first scouting report that night!

Vilmar Barrios, a Colombian, was born in October 1993. He is 179cm tall, weighs 74kg, and plays in the lower back position.

This defensive midfielder recommended by Hazard is no longer young. He is about to turn 25 now. He has been playing in South America. Two years ago, he joined the old Argentine giant Boca Juniors for 2.5 million euros.

Although he was doing well in Boca, after hearing that Chelsea wanted to buy him, this young man who had never seen the world immediately wanted to fly to London that day!

Since Abramovich purchased the Blues, the entire world of football knows that even the players who serve as substitutes at Chelsea are all millionaires!

With the players' wishes, the negotiations went extremely smoothly. Just two days later, Chelsea had reached a preliminary agreement with Boca Juniors.

Compared with the purchase price two years ago, Chelsea paid 4 times the transfer fee to the other party in one go!

10 million euros!-

Affected by the World Cup, preparations for the new season are very intense.

Except for playing a meaningless warm-up match against a League One team on July 30, Chelsea's players have been conducting the most basic physical recovery training.

There is no way, in the first team, there are 6 players who played in the final round of the World Cup.

England's three champions: Lee Polo, Cahill, and Loftus-Cheek.

Runner-up Belgium 1: Hazard, Courtois (just left).

The third runner-up French players: Kante and Giroud (participating in the battle for third place).

There is also Golovin, William played to the quarterfinals (July 7), the physical condition of the entire team is not optimistic.

The first game of the new season is the contest with Manchester City.

Even if it's just the Community Shield, Chelsea can't afford to lose.

Last season, they overpowered Manchester City to steal all the championships. Wouldn't it be a big loss if we lost to them in the first meeting of the new season? -

Although at the first Players' Congress, Lee Poirot proposed to give Chelsea's young players more opportunities to play, the head coach is still Conte after all.

Although Lee Polo has unparalleled influence in the locker room, he does not intend to overthrow Kong Erluzi and directly assumes three positions: player, director, and head coach.

So the two of them took a step back with a tacit understanding.

Except for Chike, who was named by Lee Polo, who can be registered in the first team, other players can still only stay in the reserve team or U21, and at most they can only participate in training with the team.

On August 4, after sorting out the World Cup results, FIFA announced the latest national team rankings.

Belgium, which was originally ranked second, jumped past the 2014 world champion Germany, which had been leading the standings.

England, which was ranked 8th last time, relied on the momentum of winning the World Cup to surpass traditional strong teams such as Portugal, France, Argentina, Brazil, and Germany in one fell swoop and ranked second in the standings.

This result is real enough. After all, there is more than 300 points difference between England and Belgium. Although the World Cup finals are highly anticipated, it is not enough to offset such a huge gap in the cold and ruthless points system.

And because many teams were beaten by England and conceded too many goals, their points were deducted to varying degrees. As a result, some national teams that did not participate in the World Cup increased their positions in the standings...

For example, Panama, who was beaten by England by 12 goals, was even surpassed by the Chinese team, which took a two-month rest...

August 5, 2:45 pm.

After a summer of concerts, the new Wembley Stadium finally ushered in a long-awaited football match.

After all, it is located in London, and Wembley can also be regarded as half of Chelsea's home stadium.

During the warm-up training before the game, Chelsea specially invited FA Chairman Gregg to show off the newly-acquired Hercules Cup in front of 80,000 fans.

And Lee Polo held up his small World Cup Golden Ball trophy and showed it off in front of the Blues fans.

It is no exaggeration to say that leading the team to win the first World Cup championship in half a century was enough for ordinary people in England to ignore his skin color and race and regard him as a hero of the entire country!

Of course, it is inevitable that there will be some inappropriate sounds.

For example, "Don't you feel ashamed that you won the championship with the help of yellow people?"

"Only trophies won by pure Anglo-Saxons are eligible to be placed in the Hall of Honor of the British Empire!"

However, now that Lee Polo is at his peak, these insignificant noises are no different from mosquitoes and will not have any impact on his reputation.

Taking into account the players' physical condition, both Conte and Guardiola have arranged a rotation lineup.

For Chelsea, Hazard, Kante, Cahill, Willian and other absolute main players have all rested, while young players such as Loftus-Cheek and Callum Odoi have been given starting opportunities.

However, in contrast, Fabregas, Pedro, Alonso, Azpilicueta, Rudiger and other players are still on the starting list. This is all thanks to Germany and Spain's early participation in the World Cup.

go home……

Manchester City has also been affected by the World Cup.

The old captain Kompany is still recuperating from injury. De Bruyne, Sterling, Stones, Walker and other players who participated in the final have not been included in the squad. Most of the players are still at a loss in physical fitness.

However, among the starting 11, we still retain the main players such as Aguero, Fernandinho, Sane, B seat, Mendy, Otamendi, Gundogan, Ederson, and those who have just completed the transfer.

Mahrez will.

Compared with Chelsea, whose lineup is incomplete, Manchester City's starting lineup is obviously stronger.

Perhaps considering that his starting lineup is too strong, Guardiola also arranged 19-year-old Diaz, 18-year-old Foden, and 18-year-old Claudio Gomez on the bench, obviously still holding on to his ambitions.

What fantasy.

For example, if Lee Polo, who is at the end of his game, takes a rest early due to his physical condition, and Manchester City takes the lead, he can let the young people come on to see the world...

This is completely conceivable.

As a top professional player and coach, Guardiola has also experienced the sequelae after national team games, which is the so-called "FIFA virus".

Especially after a major event like the World Cup, players' status often goes through huge ups and downs.

This is the case with Sterling and De Bruyne in the Manchester City team. Whether they are the champion or the runner-up, they are not only in poor physical fitness, but also have no mental state to enter the rhythm of the new season at all, so they were directly excluded from the squad today.

outside……

Stones is better. After all, he is only England's rotating central defender. He only played the last ten minutes of the final and can still be on standby on the bench.

Lee Polo seemed to have seen through Manchester City's thoughts. When the team was in the tunnel, he frankly admitted to the Manchester City players:

"Guys, I have to tell you, I'm not in good shape right now, so I can only play 60 minutes and even get substituted at halftime."

Aguero, Sane, Gundogan and others standing a few steps away were surprised by his speech, but thinking of the tragic failures in the past few years, they remained silent.

[This guy is full of bad things, so you can’t sympathize with him!]

[No, he just won the World Cup, who would sympathize with him?]

Li Polo opened his arms and showed his signature kind smile:

"So, if you want to defeat me, you have to go all out in the first half, otherwise... I will make the second half become garbage time!"

Aguero couldn't help but pursed his lips.

[Made, you know this bastard doesn’t have a nice word to say!]

[Negative sentiment from Manchester City’s starting 11, +4848!]

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Attached (not chargeable):

Chelsea first team lineup for the 2018-2019 season:

Goalkeepers (3 people): No. 32 Navas, No. 20 Caballero, No. 37 Eduardo

Defenders (8 people): No. 2 Rudiger, No. 3 Alonso, No. 5 Criscito, No. 21 Zapacosta, No. 24 Cahill (captain), No. 27 Christensen, No. 28