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Chapter 229 It’s the awards season again, and Mourinho’s Real Madrid has a great harvest [Please subscribe! 】

The EFL Cup match against West Ham United was not a big physical exertion for the Chelsea team. After all, the intensity is there.

After defeating West Ham United 6-1 in the first game, the second leg of the Carabao Cup semi-final was completely just a formality for Chelsea.

In addition, this year's EFL Cup final will be held on March 3, almost two months later.

So from now on, Chelsea's third-line battle will basically eliminate the English League Cup.

Instead, there will be an FA Cup match that will be played basically every half a month.

Compared with the English League Cup, which will be finished in March, the most troublesome aspect of the English FA Cup for the Premier League teams lies in its competition system.

Playing in the English League Cup, if the two sides are tied during the regular game time, then the two sides will directly play overtime in the game on the spot.

If there is still a tie, a penalty shootout will be played.

Anyway, the winner will be decided in one game.

But in the FA Cup, if you dare to draw, then tm will have to play another play-off match. This competition system is really disgusting!

You must know that the FA Cup starts from the third round of the Premier League team's participation, and it is already the second half of the Premier League.

The further you play, the tighter the Premier League team's schedule, so the FA Cup has a play-off system, which is a big trouble for the major Premier League teams.

Chelsea's bench depth is relatively thick, but for Mourinho, he is also hesitant about whether to smash the FA Cup in the follow-up.

Fortunately, the current Premier League team has only played one round of the FA Cup, and the current schedule can still handle it. Mourinho also plans to watch while playing.

If the follow-up really affects the team's preparations for the league and the Champions League, then he can only reluctantly give up the FA Cup.

Just like last season, he gave up the King's Cup in order not to affect the defense of La Liga and the Champions League.

If you give up, you will get something. Like the season when he led Real Madrid to win six crowns, it is really rare.

After making a rough decision in his heart, Mourinho no longer paid too much attention to the subsequent FA Cup schedule.

However, before devoting himself to the preparations for the Premier League, Mourinho has to decide on the loan matters of several young players in the second half of this season.

At present, except for the two young players Van Ginkel and Callas, who will stay in the first team, the rest of the young players in the team will either return to the Chelsea second team or be rented out by the club.

Among the rented army, Ake, Maguire and Salah have received the most attention and care from Mourinho.

The loan teams of Ake and Maguire are easy to find.

Mourinho just picked around in the English Championship, and finally directly asked the club to make contact with Barnsley Club, which is currently second to last in the English Championship.

The Barnsley executives, who are suffering from poor defense this season and have been unable to improve their results, saw the opportunity to rent two of Chelsea's defensive talents for free, and immediately agreed.

If it was in the past normal seasons, Barnsley had no worries about performance.

They will not make this kind of loan decision to help other Premier League teams train players almost for free.

But this year there is really no way. The team has not invested much. Since the beginning of the season, Barnsley has been hovering outside the relegation zone of the English Championship.

Before halfway through the season, Barnsley fell directly into the relegation zone.

Now that the 25th round of the English Championship has just ended, Barnsley has lost 13 games and conceded 43 goals. The number of goals conceded ranks third among the 24 teams in the English Championship!
With such bad defense, Barnsley can't care less about helping other Premier League teams train new players for free.

It's good to have defensive players who can use it!
What's more, Maguire is a talent trained by their own youth academy and is becoming increasingly famous in the English League One.

This kind of young defensive genius usually transfers directly to the championship team or the middle and lower teams of the Premier League.

It is a complete surprise that they can now rent the team for half a season for free without paying wages to help avoid relegation.

Therefore, the procedures for Maguire and Ake to rent out Barnsley were done very quickly.

Before the 1st round of the Premier League match between Chelsea and Hull City on January 11, the two teenagers had already gone to Barnsley to report.

But for Salah, Mourinho intends to let him stay in the Chelsea team for a while.

In subsequent games, such as the Premier League and the FA Cup, Mourinho intends to give Salah more time and opportunities to play.

Let him adapt to the rhythm of English football first, and by the way, let him practice more with the first-team players to get a preliminary run-in.

Afterwards, he will be re-loaned back to Basel, and Chelsea will still bear all Salah's salary. In this case, Basel should not have any problems.

When Salah plays all the remaining Swedish Super League games this season and returns to Chelsea next season, his position will be easily arranged.

After arranging the loan work of the players, Mourinho led the team to prepare intensively for the last two days.

On the afternoon of January 1th, the opening game of the 11st round of the Premier League between Chelsea and Tiger City will be played at the Kingston Communication Stadium.

Compared with the first half of the league, when the two teams met for the first time, Hull City has already experienced the baptism of nearly [-] Premier League games.

They are now surprisingly ranked tenth in the Premier League standings.

For a newly promoted horse, Hull City's performance can be described as stunning.

They have not scored many goals, and they may not be worthy of their current status of tenth in the Premier League. Their offensive ability is at best in the lower reaches of the Premier League.

But their defensive ability is quite good, and they can definitely rank among the top eight in the Premier League.

Curtis Davis, Huddlestone and Livermore, who performed relatively well in the Hull City team, are now receiving renewed attention from many veteran Premier League clubs.

Perhaps they did not perform particularly well in their respective clubs before, but in the Hull City team this season, they are the players who have received the most media attention.

Li Ang is not very impressed with Hull City, but he likes the tiger on their team badge because it looks very domineering.

However, the tactics adopted by Hull City in this game at home are not at all comparable to domineering.

Because they immediately set up a three-five-two starting lineup at the beginning.

It seems that they want to defend at home and rely on their good defensive strength to contain Chelsea's offense.

For such a team.At present, the other top 6 teams in the Premier League may have a headache after watching it, including Manchester City and Arsenal.

But Chelsea likes it very much. The current Chelsea is the same as Real Madrid in the previous two seasons.I like to play this kind of shrinking team.

Because they have too many ways to break the bus, and if Hull City's defense is good, it is only compared to other teams in the middle of the Premier League.

Everton and Arsenal's defense, which are better than Hull City's defense, were not penetrated in the face of Chelsea?

Therefore, Mourinho did not prepare any more complicated tactics. At the beginning of the game, he directly instructed his players to press forward boldly and launch a siege against Hull City!

Li Ang played very comfortably on the offensive end today, because Mourinho directly arranged for Matic and Ramirez to partner with double midfielders to wipe Li Ang's ass today.

This kind of midfield defensive combination is more than enough to deal with Hull City, and Li Ang does not need to work as hard on the defensive end as he usually does in games.

He only needs to go all out on the offensive end today, leading Hazard and De Bruyne to constantly put pressure on Hull City's defense.

With his organizational attack in Hull City's half, and Ibrahimovic's frequent retreats to support him, Hazard and De Bruyne's offensive on the wing can be said to be unscrupulous.

Except for the hard attack, the two don't need to be responsible for additional tactical tasks such as organization and containment.

Faced with the attacks from both wings of the current Belgian national team, how could Hull City's wide players withstand it?

Their strong defense is also strong in the thick defensive force in the middle.

In terms of one-on-one defensive strength, Hull City's two full-backs Figueroa and Muhammadi are properly at the middle and lower levels of the Premier League.

Let alone Hazard, De Bruyne is fully capable of suppressing technical dribbling when facing such an opponent.

The two full-backs of Hull City, who couldn't withstand the pressure one-on-one, could only choose to seek help from their teammates.

Under normal circumstances, if the defense of one wing is unbalanced, the defensive players in the center can also be used to help double-team.

But the defensive imbalance of the two sides at almost the same time can only embarrass the defensive players in the middle.After all, if both sides need defensive support, who will rely on the center to withstand Chelsea's offensive pressure?

It is impossible to open the defense line in the center for the purpose of defending on the side, and then let Chelsea attack more easily, right?

This is an unsolvable tactical problem, and Sky Sports commentators continued to praise Li Ang for his intelligence during the game.

This is the wisdom of a core organization player, knowing where the opponent's weakest defensive part is, and then using a reasonable distribution of ball rights to attack where it must be saved.

Once the opponent's defense is unbalanced, our own offensive opportunities will continue to come.

It seems that what Li Ang did in this game was to create enough ball transfers for Hazard and De Bruyne.

It seemed that anyone could do this job, but if it were someone else, such as Oscar, he might not be able to do it.

Because he simply can't do what Li Ang does, saying he doesn't want to attack the ball and don't want it. Oscar himself wants to take the ball.

With him, it is impossible for Hazard and De Bruyne to control almost all of Chelsea's offensive possessions in the first half.

Then Chelsea is unlikely to pry Hull City's defensive weaknesses directly from the two wings so easily.

Li Ang's intelligence lies in the fact that he not only has strong insight, but also that he can always think and delegate power in the interests of the team as a whole.

This is the most valuable.

Perhaps it is precisely because of this that Mourinho was able to confidently let the club spend a lot of money to directly poach Li Ang.

And I firmly believe that with Li Ang as the core, Chelsea will be able to rebuild successfully!
For this reason, he can directly sacrifice Oscar, who has already played a good performance and statistics in Chelsea.

Now it seems that Mourinho's decision is extremely correct. It's really not that Oscar is bad, but that Li Ang is so rare.

Under Chelsea's continuous side attacks in the first half, Hull City's proud central defense also continued to disintegrate.

When Livermore retreated and Huddlestone kept running on the two sides to defend their teammates.

Li Ang only used one sudden dribble forward, and he and Ibrahimovic directly pierced Hull City's defense!
In the 209th minute of the first half, Ibrahimovic crossed the ball after receiving Li Ang's breakthrough from the front of the penalty area, and passed Hull City defender Alex Bruce with his back.

Then he shot directly through the goal guarded by Hull City goalkeeper McGregor with a powerful shot!
With enough patience, Chelsea won a chance to break the deadlock for themselves in the first half of the game.

After this goal was scored, facing Hull City who had to find a way on the offensive end, Chelsea had won 90% of the game.

Hull City is not good at attacking, while Chelsea is too good at defending.

So when Mourinho cheekily faced Hull City and put on a defensive posture, the Premier League commentators from various countries also shook their heads with a smile.

The final score of the game was 2-0.

Chelsea defeated Hull City economically in the most energy-saving way, and won their first Premier League victory since the beginning of 2014.

After the 21st round of the Premier League match between Chelsea and Hull City ended, the rest of the Premier League's powerful teams made their appearances in the subsequent game periods.

Tottenham, Manchester United and Manchester City all won the game 2-0.

Liverpool and Arsenal also beat their rivals on the road the next day.

After this round, the pattern of the top six in the Premier League remains the same. The big players have won the ball, and it is only the middle and lower reaches of the Premier League that suffer.

While the current round of the league battle was still going on, Li Ang, Mourinho and Ibrahimovic had already boarded the plane from London to Zurich, Switzerland.

On the evening of January 2014, 1, the FIFA 13 Awards Ceremony was grandly held at the Zurich Opera House.

After half a year, Li Ang reunited with his former Real Madrid teammates.

After a big hug with Long Ge first, Li Ang smiled and hugged and greeted Ronaldo, Ramos, Cassie and others one by one.

Of course, Li Ang also had many old acquaintances at the scene, such as Lahm, Neymar, Xavi, and of course Messi, whom he hadn't seen for a long time.

"How are you doing recently, Leo, long time no see!"

After hugging Messi, Li Ang squeezed into a group of Barcelona players very familiarly, and chatted with Messi, Neymar and others with a smile.

Facing Li Ang, who is no longer a Real Madrid player, Messi felt much more comfortable, and even asked Li Ang jokingly:

Why didn't he even think about going to Barcelona to play with him last summer?
"Of course it's because it's more interesting to be your opponent than to be your teammate!"

This is what Li Ang really thinks.

But looking at Neymar, who is close at hand, Li Ang finally confused this topic by saying that he is a 100% "Madridist".

"Also, Cristiano and the others are my dear relatives and friends, brothers and sisters, how could I abandon them and switch to Barcelona!"

When Li Ang said this, his face was completely "I am very loyal".

So amid the boos from Harvey, Neymar and others, Li Ang was quickly pushed out of the Barcelona gang by several people jokingly.

In the end, the three masters and apprentices of Chelsea sat with everyone in the Real Madrid gang.

At the awards ceremony that night, the group that gained the most was naturally their temporary group.

Mourinho was elected FIFA Men's Football Coach of the Year for two consecutive years.

Cristiano Ronaldo won the FIFA Ballon d'Or again and successfully defended his title.

Last season, as many as six main players of Mu's Real Madrid were selected for the best team of the year!
Casillas, Pepe, Ramos, Xavi Alonso, Liang, Ronaldo!
The remaining five players in the best team are Lahm from Bayern Munich, Alves, Xavi, Messi from Barcelona, ​​and Ibrahimovic who is now at Chelsea with Leon.

And in the specific ranking announced by the Golden Globe Awards tonight, both Li Ang and Ibrahimovic entered the top ten of the Golden Globe Awards list!

Among them, Li Ang ranked No.6 in the Golden Globe Awards, and Ibrahimovic ranked fourth. Chelsea also had a bumper harvest tonight.

Head coach Mourinho won FIFA's best men's football coach, and two players were selected into the top ten of the Ballon d'Or list.

However, Mendes had been thinking about it after the award ceremony that night, because Li Ang was only a few votes away from being able to surpass Iniesta and enter the top five of the Ballon d'Or list.

Although this was just a gimmick, it still greatly improved Li Ang's commercial value.

Li Ang finally comforted Mendes in turn.

"Jorge, if I reach the double-twenty figures this season, and I can guarantee a Premier League title and a League Cup title, where do you think I will be in the Golden Globe Awards next year?"

Mendes's eyes shone when he heard Li Ang's words, and he replied directly without thinking:
"Top three! You will definitely be in the top three at that time. Last season, it was because you suffered a little loss in terms of personal statistics, otherwise I will tell the truth.

You can surpass Ibrahimovic, and you may even pull down Ribery and directly enter the top three in the Golden Globe list!

Look at your age and then look at your honor.Everything is enough, all that is missing is data and a further boost in fame! "

Li Ang smiled and hugged Mendez's shoulder.

"Then you will increase your publicity in the future, and help me make up for this defect!

Jorge, I will definitely lift at least two championship trophies this summer! "

Mendes was also very happy to see Li Ang's confidence.

Li Ang looked at the dome of the Grand Theater in Zurich, feeling very hot in his heart.

After witnessing Ronaldo win the Ballon d'Or again this year, the restlessness in his heart has completely disappeared.

Because he has taken an important step in his career.

Everything is going smoothly.

And he also believes that the arrival of his most glorious moment will not be too far away...

(End of this chapter)