"Eighteen goals, eighteen goals!" Mortenson exclaimed, "The league has been played for twenty-one rounds, and Yang Fan has scored eighteen goals, and if you exclude the number of games suspended and injured, it only took Yang Fan fifteen games to score these eighteen goals! This is a terrifying goal efficiency, this is only his first season in the Premier League, and he has already made the whole league tremble under his terrifying threat!"

"Fourteen games to be exact. Lineker continued, "Manchester United have one more game to play. ”

It was the 18th round of the league fixture, which was postponed to 15 January, the middle of the following week, when United were in Tokyo for the Club World Cup.

"I'm excited to see this young man grow every step of the way. Mortenson said.

In the sight of the two, Ferguson was waiting for Yang Fan at the gate of Yongdao, and the godfather of Manchester United grabbed him and patted him on the head. It was as if a father complimented his son for his excellence.

"Last summer, Ferguson would rather have a face-to-face with the club's hierarchy than insist on investing heavily in Yang Fan, which many people had doubts at the time, but now it seems that this could be another important decision in Sir Alex Ferguson's managerial career, and this young man is likely to become the new banner of Red United!"

In the Manchester United dressing room, the atmosphere is still very good. Although Chelsea scored a goal, they also went back to the top again in the closing stages of the first half, which was a big morale boost for the whole team.

Yang Fan's goal in less than a minute of the opening game was also talked about by everyone.

Of course, the opening 56 seconds are not a quick goal, as the top three fastest goals in Premier League history (starting the 1992/1993 season) were: Tottenham's Ledley King (9.9 seconds against Bradford on 9 December 2000), Newcastle's Alan Shearer (10.4 seconds against Manchester City on 18 January 2003) and Leeds' Viduka (11.1 seconds against Charlton Athletic on 17 March 2001).

However, for Manchester United, Yang Fan's goal in the opening minute can be said to have affected the trend of the game in a certain way, and he allowed United to take the lead from the beginning, which disrupted Chelsea's tactical deployment, and spent most of the first half trying to find ways to equalize the score.

Ferguson also publicly praised Yang Fan, however, he focused on Yang Fan's assist to Cristiano Ronaldo at the last moment, of course, he also praised Cristiano Ronaldo, saying that this goal is a morale-boosting goal for the whole team, and it is a guarantee that they will have more confidence to win the game and win against Chelsea in the second half.

'That pass was great. "That's it, when you get the attention of your opponents, your team-mates definitely get more chances. ”

Yang Fan nodded, it was true, at least three Chelsea players were attracted to him at that time, which is why Cristiano Ronaldo's side was temporarily vacant.

"Well done, Cristiano. Ferguson nodded to Cristiano Ronaldo. "The Chelsea people must now regret dying that they didn't send someone to keep an eye on a horrible guy like you. ”

There was a burst of laughter among the teammates. Cristiano Ronaldo also smiled happily.

Ferguson then criticised the laughter, saying: "I don't want to say too much about Frank Lampard's goal, yes, it was a beautiful goal and it doesn't seem like you should be blamed." However, I would say that if you had been more timely and decisive in your scrambles, at least it would have affected the quality of Lampard's shots, and maybe the result would have been different. ”

Hearing Ferguson say that, the people at the back stopped laughing, and it was true, and if they had been more decisive in their ups, and if they had gone up to interfere with Frank Lampard, maybe they wouldn't have conceded a goal.

Park Ji-sung, in particular, hung his head in annoyance, believing that Ferguson was criticising him, and it was he who went up to intercept Frank Lampard, but unfortunately he was half a beat slow and could not stop Lampard's shot.

In fact, Ferguson is a little harsh, Lampard's goal, 35 meters away from the goal, the average player will not shoot here from a distance, Manchester United's defenders are worried that they will be passed if they are too fierce, so they did not press closely.

He did this intentionally, praising the table at the offensive end and warning the backline to cheer them up. Against Chelsea, you can't afford to be sloppy for a minute, it's a tough opponent.

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Meanwhile, in the Chelsea dressing room.

Scolari didn't speak in the first place, pacing back and forth between the players. Check this out. Look at that again. I didn't speak for a long time.

Everyone was unsure of what the manager was thinking now, and they didn't dare to open his mouth, for fear of making him angry. After all, they were scored in the last minute of the first half, and the score fell behind again, giving away the already good situation of the draw again.

Scolari did want to be angry, and he was extremely unhappy with the team conceding a goal in the final moments of the first half, but looking at the players, Scolari suppressed his anger. He spoke.

Scolari began by praising Frank Lampard for his brilliant goal.

The team-mates were relieved to see that the manager didn't seem to be angry, and they all praised Frank Lampard, not just because it was the vice-chancellor's goal, but also because of the difficulty and excitement of the goal. From 35 meters from the goal, such a super long-range shot, almost straight into the net, such a goal is really beautiful. The goal helped the team temporarily equalise at the time and dealt a blow to United's arrogance. If it weren't for the fact that United went ahead again in the final moments of the first half, the goal would have been even more meaningful.

Frank Lampard smiled at his team-mate's compliment, but Lampard was calm when it came to Scolari's praise. He doesn't have a good relationship with the Brazilian coach.

In fact, Scolari has not had a good relationship with many of Chelsea's key players.

Jose Mourinho won six trophies in three years at Chelsea, which made Chelsea no longer able to tolerate a season without a title, so even if Israel Grant led the team to the Champions League and League Cup finals last season, and also competed with Manchester United in the league until the last minute, but the end of the title was still not satisfactory to Abu, so the Russian didn't care whether Grant was his best friend or not, and whether Chelsea's Champions League final was a historic achievement

Scolari took over, and Abou hoped that the Brazilian would bring the title to the team, bringing glory that neither Mourinho nor Grant had done, the league title, the Champions League, the FA Cup, the League Cup...... As long as it's a trophy, none of it can be dropped. Abu believes that with Scolari's ability to lead Brazil to the 2002 World Cup, he can lead Chelsea to do just that, and he can push the blue lion to the top of the world, and Scolari is convinced that he can do that.

When it was officially announced in July last summer that Scolari would take over as head coach, the Brazilian was in high spirits, and although he was still leading Portugal to the European Championships, it was clear that the sky-high salary offered by his new club no longer allowed him to be any more reserved. So, regardless of how far Portugal can go in the European Championships, Scolari can't wait to sit in the Chelsea position, he thinks that with his own ability, this must be an easy chair.

However, there have been doubts and objections surrounding the Brazilian coach, and there is one point of view: Scolari has nothing but the World Cup title, and even though he led Portugal to the final of Euro 2004 on his home turf, he still lost to Greece led by Reja the Great. In Scolari's coaching philosophy, he needs as many talents as possible, he needs Ronaldo, Rivaldo and Ronaldinho at the peak, and Mourinho admires, such as Lampard, Terry, these men who rely on muscles to play the world obviously can't meet his requirements, so as soon as Scolari took office at Chelsea, he immediately called in Barcelona's technical midfielder Deco, and his list also includes Ronaldo, Robinho is even Kaka, and if Ronaldo hadn't been injured at the time, I'm afraid he would have handed over Ronaldo's name to the Chelsea hierarchy.

If it had been Chelsea in 2004, Scolari's demands would have been met. At that time, Abu was still a star chaser, Shevchenko, Da Luo, Xiao Luo and other names were always associated with Stamford Bridge, and at that time, Abu was very interested in football, and he would definitely not care about any request from Scolari. If it had been Scolari instead of Mourinho who had taken over as Chelsea boss at the time, the Brazilian would have built the team into a new 'galaxy'.

But now the situation is different, Abu began to tighten his purse, in the summer of 2008, Abu no longer wants to invest a lot of money in football, even if Robinho, who has been arguing for a summer, was eventually robbed by Manchester City, who became rich overnight, as for Scolari's hand-picked Ronaldo and Kaka, the two ended up at the San Siro stadium instead of Stamford Bridge. However, it is worth mentioning that Abu is not completely uninvested, if he likes a certain star very much, he will still generously take out the checkbook and sign, but, very interestingly, Abu likes Yang Fan very much, he plans to snatch Yang Fan from the mouths of Real Madrid and Manchester United, bring Yang Fan to Chelsea, and give it to Scolari as a new gift, but, to Abu's surprise, Scolari is not interested in Yang Fan, he refused, so that Abu terminated the acquisition with some stupidity.

In the end, Scolari submitted a list of reinforcements to the team's hierarchy, and he only got one Deco, who was abandoned by Barcelona. So, as long as Deco is not injured, he will definitely be able to start regardless of his condition, and most of them can play the whole game, which has caused great dissatisfaction among Chelsea's veteran stars, which is why Lampard and others have "military advice", because these muscular but not simple-minded men can't understand why Deco can enjoy a treatment that others don't have?

The relationship between Lampard and Scolari was not good from the beginning, when Frank Lampard and Chelsea were talking about a contract extension in the summer, Scolari told the media that Lampard had stated that he was sure to stay, which annoyed Lampard, because he did not say such a thing, he is a man of his word, if he said that he would stay, he would definitely stay, but he did not say ah, if he left his beloved Chelsea later, it would be considered a lie by the fans, so Lampard was very angry and even angrily accused Scolari of being a liar in the media。 The relationship between the two began to stalemate.

In addition, Scolari did not look down on Drogba and put Mourinho's 'godson' on the bench, which also made Lampard and other Mourinho descendants very unhappy.

And Scolari, who finally realised his bad relationship with Frank Lampard, Drogba and other important stars, also began to think about repairing his relationship with them at this time, but it didn't seem to work well.

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After the praise, Scolari criticised the Chelsea backline.

'We've been doing well defensively, but today we were so reckless and I can't accept conceding like that. Scolari said.

The atmosphere in the locker room suddenly became solemn.

'Our opponent is Manchester United. It's our direct rivals for the title, you know how many points behind Manchester United and you know what it means to make mistakes in a game like this. In the second half, everybody had to cheer up and I didn't want to see any more goals conceded. ”

"John. Scolari called Terry's name, and the latter looked up at him.

"In the second half of the game, your task has changed, you go to guard Yang Fan. Scolari said, then turned his head to look at Alex, "Alex, you defend Wayne Rooney in the second half. ”

Alex's face was a little gloomy and he nodded. He knew that this was the manager's dissatisfaction with his performance in the first half, thinking that he couldn't defend against Yang Fan, so he asked him to defend Rooney, who was 'relatively weak' among Manchester United's two strikers.

Alex is physical, well-positioned, has good air defense, has a heavy artillery kick and is good at free-kicks, but a big man like him has a shortcoming: he is inflexible and slow to turn and chase back. In the first half of the game, the goal scored by Yang Fan exposed Alex's shortcomings, Yang Fan suddenly accelerated, Alex turned slowly, and wanted to continue chasing, but he couldn't catch up at all.

Yang Fan is not easy to deal with, but is Rooney good at defending?

"When other teammates focus on defending a certain player, others need to be more clear-minded and don't have a situation where the opposing offensive player has no one to mark. "It's unthinkable that Cristiano Ronaldo is such a dangerous man that he should be unmarked when he shoots. ”

After criticising the backline, Scolari took a break to allow the dressing room atmosphere to pick up slowly. Not as silent as it was just now. Actually, in general. He was still quite satisfied with the first half. Of course, the dissatisfaction was that he conceded another goal at the end of the first half, otherwise he would have been in a good mood.

"Alright. Guys, if you don't want to be pulled apart, you know what to do in the second half...... I won't make any adjustments in the second half for a while, Manchester United are old opponents and you know this opponent better than I do, so I don't need to say anything more, but at the beginning of the game I need you to step up and if you can score an equaliser within 15 minutes of the second half, the game will be back on track. ”

Indeed, Chelsea and Manchester United are old rivals in the same league and both sides are familiar with each other, and this kind of meeting is often not a surprise tactic. It is simply the strength of the two sides, the overall strength of the team and the individual ability of the players. So, Scolari was right, and most of the Chelsea players nodded in understanding.

Such a duel between old opponents, which both sides are very familiar with, is fighting for strength, fighting for the focus of the game, fighting for strength and state, and playing tricks in tactics will not have any too significant effect.

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It's almost time.

The Chelsea players walked out of the dressing room and headed to the pitch again to prepare for the second half.

"Didier. Scolari suddenly called out to Drogba.

The Ivorian star stopped, but he didn't look back, he didn't think he had anything to talk about with the Brazilian coach.

The relationship between Scolari and Drogba is worse than the relationship between him and Frank Lampard.

Scolari once complained unabashedly to his friend, saying: "Didier Drogba thinks he's the star of the team and I have a problem with him. He wanted to go to the hospital in Paris after an injury and I refused, he thought he was the irreplaceable one, but, in fact, it was not like that, and in Drogba's absence, Anilka played very well. But when Drogba came back, he wanted to start straight away and I didn't allow that. ”

Scolari favors the so-called talents, and although Anelka is already a 29-year-old veteran, he was a young and famous talent, and he belongs to the category of talented stars that Scolari likes. He favored Anelka, and then he didn't like Drogba, who was a 'late bloomer', and Scolari didn't like it.

And just a week ago, when Scolari was communicating with his boss Roman Abramovich about the team's winter transfer signings, he made it clear that he wanted to sell Drogba and bring in Inter's Adriano, because Scolari believes Adriano is more talented and easier to manage.

However, Abramovich rejected Scolari's request, and the Russian tycoon admired Drogba.

Therefore, Scolari could only continue to use Drogba, and in desperation, he began to think about improving relations with Drogba. It's just that it doesn't seem to have any effect, Drogba doesn't buy it, Drogba is a straight person, he doesn't like someone, he just doesn't like it.

Indeed, there is much more to the internal conflicts in the Chelsea dressing room under Scolari, with midfielder Michael Ballack unhappy when Portugal's Deco moved to the Blues last summer. After Deco arrived, the two barely spoke in the locker room. It can be said that Chelsea's dressing room is now just one step away from getting out of control.

'Aim for a goal in the second half. Scolari was upset when he saw Drogba's 'arrogant' attitude, but he said, "You have the ability. ”

"Of course I know what I'm capable of. Didier Drogba said, "I'm playing for Chelsea and I'm going to do my best, don't worry. ”

After saying that, Drogba did not bird Scolari and walked away. He's such a personality that he's not afraid of falling out with Scolari, in fact, the relationship between the two has long been very bad. But, as Drogba said, he's going to give his all in the game, he's not playing for Scolari, he's playing for the Chelsea shirt, fighting for the fans in the stands and being worthy of every pound Chelsea pays him. So, this Brazilian coach doesn't have to worry about his attitude to the game.

"Bastard. Looking at Drogba's back, Scolari cursed in his heart, and he decided to communicate with Abramovich again, and finally fight for it again, and get this Ivorian away. When the time comes, he will buy Adriano, although his personality is not good in the eyes of others, but Scolari is confident that he will manage Adriano well, which is actually an obedient child.