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Chelsea travel to Bolton Wanderers.

As soon as the game began, the morale-boosting Blues turned against the visitors and launched a frenzied press on Bolton.

Just one minute into the game, Frank Lampard combined up for Gudjohnson after a break in front of the penalty spot to open the scoring for Chelsea with a volley from near the penalty spot.

The goal completely stunned the home fans and surprised all the media reporters who were chasing Chelsea to the away game, but what shocked them even more was that after the goal, Frank Lampard turned and rushed to the sidelines, hugged the manager Gao Han hard, and the two looked close.

Not only all the fans and reporters at the scene, but even the audience in front of the TV were shocked.

Hasn't the media been circulating that Lampard is at odds with Gao Han and is clamoring to leave?

Even his agent has been in contact with other teams, especially Manchester United, and even Alex Ferguson has personally said his welcome to Frank Lampard, but what is the situation now?

But on the pitch, Chelsea ignored the ideas of others and continued to hold Bolton at bay.

In the ninth minute, Parker scored again, but still the back row stepped in and scored a long-range shot from the edge of the penalty area.

With two goals in a row, Chelsea were in astonishing form.

Just eight minutes later, Gudjohnson latched on to Robben's cross from the left in the box and slotted home the penalty area to score Chelsea's third goal of the game.

In just 17 minutes, three goals were scored in a row, and Chelsea's offensive shocked everyone, and even the on-site commentators on TV exclaimed, even the team composed of substitutes and youth team youngsters have such attacking power, who else can resist such a strong Chelsea?

Perhaps it was after the onslaught that Chelsea relented a bit, and it wasn't long before Bolton took advantage of Okocha's goal to pull one back.

However, after the second half, the Blues continued to press their opponents, and in the 74th and 80th minutes, thanks to goals from Cesc Fabregas and Frank Lampard, they beat Bolton Wanderers 5-1 and basically advanced to the final.

At the post-match press conference, Gao Han highly affirmed the performance of the players, especially Frank Lampard, who was once again voted the best player of the match, and gave a very high evaluation, praising the England midfielder by name in public.

What made the media reporters rush to amuse was that Lampard also praised the manager Gao Han in an interview with familiar reporters after the game, changing the attitude of never evaluating the manager in the past, and high-profile evaluation of the manager as the best manager in European football today.

It also gave reporters a glimpse of Chelsea's shift.

Sure enough, two days after the Carabao Cup semi-final, Frank Lampard's agent told the media that all rumours about Lampard's transfer were fake news and that Frank Lampard was loyal to Chelsea and had not considered leaving.

Chelsea officials have also publicly stated that Frank Lampard is a vital member of the team and will not accept offers from any team, while also saying that the team will restart contract extension talks with Frank Lampard in the near future.

The statement from both sides essentially concludes that Frank Lampard will remain at Chelsea.

A number of teams that are trying to poach the corner, including Manchester United, are disappointed.

Perhaps spurred on by the promise of a contract extension, Frank Lampard continued his scoring run in the FA Cup last-32 tie just a day later, scoring twice to help his side beat Scarblough 5-0 away.

The disgraced side are the biggest dark horse of the FA Cup so far, coming from the amateur league and the only amateur team to reach the round of 32, only to be slaughtered by Chelsea.

Also outstanding were Arsene Wenger's Arsenal.

With Chelsea trailing so much in the league that Arsene Wenger has clearly increased his focus on the Carabao Cup and FA Cup, and surprisingly, the Gunners have faced Middlesbrough in the Carabao Cup semi-finals and the FA Cup last-32 knockout round.

That is, three times in a week, Middlesbrough.

In the previous Carabao Cup semi-finals, Arsenal encountered a stubborn sniper from Middlesbrough, who played their main team, and won by a small goal at home, but in the FA Cup, it was also a home game, and Arsenal won 4-1.

It is not difficult to see from the two games that Middlesbrough has concentrated all their energy on the Carabao Cup and abandoned the FA Cup.

As it turned out, Middlesbrough did cause Arsenal quite a bit of trouble in the second leg of the Carabao Cup semi-final, especially in the first half, when Middlesbrough's home advantage was very obvious.

Even in first-half stoppage time, Cendon threatened on the flanks and created chaos in the box, with veteran Arsenal centre-back Keown being sent off with a red card, leaving Arsenal with one man to play all of the second half.

The rest of the game was a logical one, with Middlesbrough scoring twice in the 69th and 77th minutes.

But just when everyone thought Middlesbrough would reach the final, Arsene Wenger made a substitution at a crucial moment, and the Spanish youngster Reyes, who was introduced during the winter break, used a counterattack to score a crucial goal and drag the game into extra time.

However, neither side could perform well in extra-time, and Arsenal, who had one man less, were forced to counter-attack, and finally held the score to the end, and eliminated Middlesbrough with away goals to advance to the final.

The final is scheduled for the last Sunday of February, and on the 29th, the match will be played at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, the venue for the English Cup final since Wembley Stadium was refurbished.

Chelsea and Arsenal will both meet in the League Cup final, which has also brought this little-known cup competition back to the eyes of Premier League fans around the world.

However, both Gao Han and Arsene Wenger have no time to pay attention to this final, because three days after the second leg of the semi-final, the Premier League ushered in the twenty-third round.

Chelsea, who had just beaten Bolton Wanderers 2-0 at home in the second leg of the Carabao Cup semi-final, returned to the Premier League with a 3-0 win away to Blackburn Rovers with a strong squad.

Samuel Eto'o scored twice and Zlatan Ibrahimovic also scored a goal.

However, it was short-lived, and in the next game, Arsenal beat Manchester City 2-1 at home, with Thierry Henry scoring the team's second goal.

As a result, Thierry Henry remains leading the Premier League scorers with 18 goals, Samuel Eto'o is second with 17, Shearer is third with 16, Ruud van Nistelrooy is fourth with 15 goals, and Ibrahimovic and Saha, who has just moved to Manchester United, are tied for fifth with 14 goals.

Compared with the top in the league, the highlights of the scorer list have become the focus of attention of media reporters.

In particular, Gao Han and the media reporters' pre-season bets made the media all over England anxious.

Seeing Eto'o closing in on Henry step by step, and Ibrahimovic also following closely behind, both made the English media worry about it, for fear that if they lost, they would have to publish an apology.

A week later, in the 24th round of the Premier League, Chelsea beat Charlton Athletic 2-0 at home, and Van der Sar was very eye-catching, winning the applause of the Stamford Bridge fans in successive rounds with clean sheets.

Samuel Eto'o and Zlatan Ibrahimovic continued to score as they both continued to score.

And this round of Arsenal won 3-1 away at Wolves, and Thierry Henry also scored a goal to continue to suppress Eto'o in the scorers' charts.

However, Manchester United beat Everton 4-3 away.

Ferguson's side were three goals ahead before David Moyes's side scored three goals in quick succession, and then won Everton thanks to Ruud van Nistelrooy's stunner.

Ruud van Nistelrooy and Saha both scored twice.

It also made the media after the game revel, because with this goal, Van Nistelrooy once again caught up with Thierry Henry and Samuel Eto'o with 17 goals, and the three were only one goal away from each other.

However, Saha equalled Alan Shearer with 16 goals and trampled Ibrahimovic, who scored 15 goals.

As a result, after this round of matches, the British media touted Manchester United, believing that the Red Devils have two top scorers and have more attacking power than Chelsea.

But Gao Han scoffed at this kind of remarks, believing that it was a fantasy of having fun after losing the league.

'At least half of the credit for Saha's goal goes to Fulham, but Sato'o and Ibrahimovic's goals came all at Chelsea and they are the best striker duo in the Premier League. ”

'I can understand the minds of some people who want to hit me and my players, but I want to say that we won't be fooled and I can guarantee that they will score more goals!'

Facts have proved that Gao Han's words are not an exaggeration at all.

Three days after Charlton Athletic, the 25th round of the Premier League saw Chelsea beat Portsmouth 2-0 away.

Ibrahimovic and Samuel Eto'o scored one goal each.

But in this round, Thierry Henry scored a brace to help Arsenal beat Southampton 2-0.

Ruud van Nistelrooy also had a net, but United lost 3-2 at home to Middlesbrough.

Judging from the current situation in the Premier League, Chelsea have basically won the league title, Arsenal continues to sit in the second place in the league, and Manchester United gradually falls to the third place in the league.

There is basically no suspense in the top three teams, only the fourth place in the league, including Liverpool, Newcastle, Birmingham, Charlton, Fulham and Bolton, and even teams such as Tottenham Hotspur and Aston Villa have a chance, and the competition is very fierce.

In the scorers' list, Thierry Henry scored 21 goals, with a two-goal advantage, overpowering Samuel Eto'o, who scored 19 goals.

Ruud van Nistelrooy was third with eighteen goals.

Saha started the game but failed to score, but it was Ibrahimovic who scored a goal and finally caught up, joining Alan Shearer in fourth place with 16 league goals.

Veteran Alan Shearer scored a lot of goals before the winter break, but his form has been in a state of flux since the winter break, and the situation looks very unpromising at the moment.

On the contrary, it was Thierry Henry, Ruud van Nistelrooy, Samuel Eto'o and Zlatan Ibrahimovic, who were very consistent.

But for British media reporters, they don't care about anything else, but are all focused on gambling with Gao Han.

In their opinion, as long as Henry can win the top scorer, even if Gao Han leads Chelsea to the championship, he will lose.

As a result, everyone has set their eyes on the 26th round of the Premier League.

After 25 rounds, the national team training camp was ushered in, and then a major key battle was ushered in.

Chelsea host Arsenal!