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Chapter 198 The Battle for the Golden Boot
Arsenal's loss once again made Shanxi Northwest into a mess.

With the last four rounds of the league remaining, Sheffield United is currently ranked third with 66 points, and Arsenal is fourth with 64 points.

Newcastle and Tottenham have postponed this round of the game, but if they win the make-up match, their points will reach 62 and 61 points respectively!
Not to mention fighting for the top four, if Sheffield United pulls back a little bit, the remaining three teams may even reach the top three.

The intensity of the four battles at the last moment of this year is far higher than in previous seasons. The temptation to play in the Champions League next season makes it impossible for Tottenham and Newcastle to give up the last chance.

After Arsenal lost to Wigan Athletic, they didn't dare to say that they were sure about the next game. At present, they are only five points ahead of the postponed Newcastle. If Newcastle wins the make-up match, their point advantage is only two points.

This is basically doomed. Before the end of the last round of the league, Arsenal dare not relax in any way, otherwise they may be dismounted by Newcastle or Tottenham at any time.

Of course, if you want to look at it optimistically, Arsenal players can also look forward to the penultimate round of the league against Sheffield United just like the Sheffield United players.

As long as they don't work hard in the remaining two rounds of the league, they will still return to the third position after winning Sheffield United.

But the Sheffield United players regard this pressure as a motivation to spur themselves. It is hard to say how the Arsenal players view this heavy pressure.

And Van Persie did not score in this round, which is also an excellent news for Li Mo.

At present, his number of league goals is 28, and Van Persie has temporarily stopped at 29, only one goal short!
Although Van Persie is still in the lead for the time being, Arsenal fans are extremely worried.

Scoring two goals in a game is not a problem for Van Persie, but it is not a problem for Li Mo either.

If Arsenal were crushed to death by Sheffield United in the fourth position and Van Persie was overtaken by Li Mo in the number of goals, then Arsenal fans would absolutely not accept it.

Well, our Lu Xiaopang has been ignored again.

Although Rooney scored two more goals in this round of the league, he raised his league goals to 25.

But neither Van Persie's fans nor Li Mo's fans regarded him as a strong competitor of the two.

The gap of three goals means that Rooney has been in a weak state for a while. In the last four rounds of the league, he can score three goals. It is not bad. It is too difficult to catch up with Li Mo and Van Persie.

What's more, Li Mo and Van Persie will score again later, and the gap between Rooney and them will only increase.

Poor Lu Xiaopang, when he played the best offensive season of his career, he encountered two perverted forwards.

Normally speaking, if you score 25 goals with four rounds left in the league, you can usually win the Premier League Golden Boot.

But this year, both Li Mo and Van Persie are about to hit the [-]-goal mark. Even Rooney can only be eclipsed in front of them.

Fortunately, Manchester United has basically secured the league title, and this title can be regarded as gratifying to Rooney. He must also be included in the best Premier League team of the year, and his personal honor can be added.

Even with such a good performance, he failed to win the league golden boot. Maybe Rooney himself gave up. His career is destined to have nothing to do with the league golden boot.

At this time, the two people who were heatedly discussed by the fans because of the Golden Boot battle are actively preparing for the next round of competition.

Sheffield United played Blackburn, and Li Mo was still relatively relaxed, but Arsenal will play Chelsea in the next round. If the state is not good enough, then Van Persie may not be able to score.

However, before Chelsea play Arsenal, they have to fight Barcelona in the Champions League, which is good news for Arsenal.

On the evening of April 4th, Chelsea sat at home in an extremely unfavorable situation and ushered in the thriving "cosmic team" Barcelona.

After the miraculous reversal of Naples, Chelsea faced Benfica in the quarter-finals, and unexpectedly double-killed their opponents in two rounds, successfully breaking into the semi-finals of this season's Champions League.

This is something that Chelsea fans dare not even think about. After the coaching change, Chelsea can still reach the semi-finals of the Champions League, which really gave the fans a big surprise.

Chelsea supporters are already very satisfied to get to this point. No one thinks that Chelsea can cross the barrier of Barcelona.

The whole of Europe is basically waiting for the final meeting between Real Madrid and Barcelona.

Even though Real Madrid lost 1-2 to Bayern Munich in the first round of the Champions League quarter-finals the day before, they scored a valuable away goal at Bayern's home court, which made Real Madrid's supporters more optimistic.

In the eyes of the fans, Barcelona's game against Chelsea is a "going through the motions".

Perhaps in this game alone, Barcelona can defeat Chelsea. After all, this Chelsea team is no longer the iron-blooded blue team that year.

But just when everyone thought that Barcelona had a [-]% chance of winning, Chelsea seized this [-]% chance and slapped all the media in the face!
1-0!

Chelsea defended the prestige of the Jagged Blues at home, they defeated the mighty Barcelona!

The media in England sang praises to Chelsea players and Di Matteo crazily!

Chelsea fought against all the doubts and ridicules against Barcelona. The old boys bet their careers, defended their glory, and defended English football.

Of course, the last sentence was added by the British media with the cheek.

And with this hearty victory, Chelsea still gave everyone a "surprise" at Arsenal's home court even though they had rotated most of their main players!
On the afternoon of April 4st, the first game of the No.21 five rounds of the Premier League.

Arsenal's home court, at this time the game time has come to No. 90 minutes in the second half, and it has entered the stage of stoppage time.

But the score was still 0-0.

Chelsea's rotation players withstood Arsenal's strong attack for the entire game, just like Chelsea's main players withstood Barcelona's siege three days ago. Chelsea was not killed by the opponent when they were not favored!
If it weren't for Torres' disappointment and all kinds of spit cakes, maybe Chelsea could beat Arsenal in this game and take three points at the Emirates Stadium!

After seeing Chamberlain standing on the line of the penalty area and kicking the ball away, Van Persie stood helplessly in Chelsea's penalty area with his hips akimbo.

This stoppage time was only 3 minutes. Chamberlain's kick basically kicked away the last chance. Van Persie knew that after this game, he had no advantage in the Golden Boot competition.

For two consecutive rounds without scoring, Van Persie can hardly tell whether it is his own state or his teammates.

At least he feels that his shooting feels good, but he just doesn't get much support, which makes him feel very aggrieved.

In the season when he ushered in his peak form, the team lost the core of the midfield, and it was the first time that Van Persie had a strange idea.

He is grateful for Wenger's trust and training. If he has no feelings for Arsenal, he must be lying to himself, but he also desires more championships.

In the past, he didn't understand the choices of his teammates, and he didn't understand Henry's departure, but now, he gradually understood.

"Maybe it's time"

Looking at the scoreboard, Van Persie walked out of Chelsea's penalty area with his head down. No one knew what he was thinking at the moment.

The Arsenal fans could only watch anxiously as the Chelsea players delayed the game, but could do nothing.

In the end, the No.30 five-round focus match of the Premier League ended with a score of 0-0.

Arsenal are winless for two consecutive rounds!
Van Persie has not scored in two consecutive rounds, and his league goals are still at 29 goals!
For a moment, all eyes were on another game that would start later.

Sheffield United is about to challenge Blackburn away at [-]:[-] pm. This is a good opportunity for Sheffield United to widen the gap with Arsenal, and it is also a good opportunity for Li Mo to overtake Van Persie.

The supporters of Sheffield United and Li Mo couldn't believe it. In the end, Arsenal and Robin van Persie personally gave the opportunity to Sheffield United and Li Mo!

Of course, Sheffield United also has a chance of overturning. After all, Blackburn is also desperately grabbing points. In order to stay in the Premier League next season, they will desperately play every remaining game.

But the grievances between Sheffield United and Blackburn this season are well known to Premier League fans.

So at least in terms of the seriousness of the game, Sheffield United players are still fine, at least not careless.

As far as the Blackburn line of defense is concerned, even if it is not tofu for Li Mo, it is almost the same.

Alan Shearer has even posted an expectant emoji on social media.

Although there is no accompanying text, the fans know what he is looking forward to.

Arsenal's draw made the players of Sheffield United breathe a sigh of relief, and now Sheffield United's points advantage has reached a very safe level.

Then, in addition to winning the game against Blackburn, helping Li Mo get the Golden Boot this season is their most important thing!
Li Mo was still very calm. He didn't ask his teammates to pass the ball to him more in the next game. He had absolute confidence in his own strength and played normally, no problem.

However, the players of Sheffield United have discussed in private that as long as they lead Blackburn by more than two goals, they will try their best to play for Li Mo.

As far as Li Mo's performance this season, this golden boot is the best gift for him.

Although Li Mo has been emphasizing from beginning to end, they are a team, and they have never boasted about their great contribution to the team.

But the players of Sheffield United also understand how great Li Mo's contribution is to win a League Cup this season and reach the top three in the league.

Not to mention that their relationship with each other has always been very good, both public and private, they all want to help Li Mo get this very important honor for a shooter.

After warming up before the game, the Sheffield United team returned to the locker room, and the coaching staff also asked the players to relax.

As long as this game is played according to the pre-match tactical arrangement, Sheffield United will have no problem winning.

The overturning of the previous strong teams is actually overconfident to a large extent. Not to mention improper tactical arrangements, sometimes overconfidence can also cause the players' spirits to be too excited.

Therefore, it is also very important to have a normal heart. Only teams that can do this can abuse food more stably.

After Speed ​​explained the tactics for the last time before the game, he also raised his mouth a bit more, allowing Li Mo to shoot boldly when he had the chance.

Berbatov, who started the game, also took Li Mo's shoulders, saying that he would do his best to help Li Mo score.

Li Mo knew that Speed ​​had given him the unlimited right to fire, and he was also clear about the plans of his teammates.

He was very moved, the atmosphere was here, if he didn't score a goal today, it would be a complete waste of the kindness of his teammates and Speed.

and so.

"Blackburn, you can go on the road with peace of mind. Today, I will be your mourner again!"

After making up his mind, Li Mo tightened the captain's armband on his arm, and led his teammates out of the locker room.

The game is about to start!
(End of this chapter)