Perhaps the haze of Inter Milan at home has not completely dissipated, with Blackburn Rovers losing 2-0 at Fulham in the 30th round of the Premier League, while two red cards from Frank Lampard and Didier Drogba made the situation even worse for the Blues. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Fortunately, Chelsea also lost at the same time, the opponent lost 0-1 to Tottenham, and Manchester United lost 1-3 to their arch-rival Liverpool, so they missed a great opportunity to catch up with Blackburn.

No one at Blackburn Rovers had seen it as a hard-fought league game against Fulham until the 18th minute, when Frank Lampard was shown a red card for a handball on the goal line, and Cech was unable to save a penalty. Fulham scored again in the 87th minute to make it 2-0.

A minute later, Blackburn suffered another blow when Drogba was unhappy with the decision and was sent off with a second yellow card for a clapping gesture to the referee. Coupled with Nemanja Vidic's two-match suspension for a direct red card in the last round of fixtures, and the bans of Frank Lampard and Didier Drogba, Blackburn will face the dilemma of missing three key players when they face Manchester City next.

While rumours were rising that Blackburn would collapse at the end of the league season, Blackburn Rovers had already ushered in their 31st round of Premier League fixtures against Manchester City, who had been recruiting for the season in the big picture.

Blackburn have won 4 wins and 2 draws in the last 6 meetings between the two sides, remained unbeaten, scored 4 goals and tried to keep the door open, and the last 3 visits to Manchester City have 1 win and 2 draws to remain unbeaten, but only scored 1 goal. However, after Manchester City was bought by the Abrabi consortium this year, it made waves in the transfer market, with a large amount of recruitment, and even the purchase of summer transfer bid Robinho was the handiwork of Manchester City.

Phil Jones, who was only brought in from the reserve squad in the middle of the season, made his first league start for Blackburn Rovers due to suspensions and injuries, while Manchester City saw veteran captain Dunn return to the starting line-up from injury – David Dunn is also a former Blackburn Rovers.

The match between the defending Premier League champions and the new Golden Yuan team was destined to be a fierce dispute from the first minute.

The king who defends the rule, the warrior who tries to challenge, this is a dialogue between the old and the new.

Whether it's intense or not, Arthur doesn't have the heart to pay attention, and after seeing the team's recent poor results, he is now immersed in the joy of the team's attack.

In this game, Blackburn Rovers have obviously recovered from the previous defeat in the Champions League, the attack is gorgeous, and the defense is also very good!

In the first 20 minutes of the first half, Manchester City and Blackburn Rovers scored in quick succession to kick off the game.

Manchester City took the lead in the 11th minute, Wright-Phillips crossed, if the ball in the box was tackled by Alonso, Wright-Phillips passed to Robinho on the right side of the box, the immature Phil Jones made a big mistake, the clearance was poor, Erland volleyed into the top corner of the goal from 10 yards.

0：1！

Many Blue Devils fans fear that the team will lose as much mentality as they did in their last league game, leading to a rout.

However, Blackburn Rovers immediately used color to tell the Arab football in the stands that it is not a sport that can be played well with money alone.

Blackburn Rovers put the two teams back on the same page five minutes later, when Arshavin crossed from the right and Ronaldo slotted into the net with his long legs in the six-yard box before Given.

1:1!

After Blackburn's equaliser, City took the lead again on 36 minutes when Rieira fouled Wright-Phillips in front of the box and Garrido's free-kick from 25 yards out on the right was a goal-scoring shot from more than 20 yards.

However, just before the end of the first half, Ronaldo tied the score again.

Blackburn Rovers won the touchline ball in front, and Branislav Ivanovic put on a Popeye show, and even threw the ball near the small box of Manchester City, causing a panic in the Manchester City penalty area, and the shrewd Torres won the opportunity at the penalty spot to score Blackburn's second goal of the game.

The intensity of the game was beyond the imagination of the managers of both sides, especially before the game, although Lippi knew that Manchester City's strength had improved greatly after the acquisition of the Abu Dhabi consortium, but he did not expect to be able to play against Blackburn on the field.

"It's really naïve, it's not a wealthy family, but you contracted the disease of Real Madrid?" Arthur scoffed.

Blackburn is most afraid of Mourinho's style of play that puts the bus and then sneaks up coldly, as for this kind of attack, even if it is Barcelona in the second phase of the dream now, the Blue Devils are not scared at all, but have obvious advantages.

Both managers were aggressively preparing for the break but just 10 minutes into the second half, Lippi made a substitution that left his opponents stunned - he replaced Ballack with "Bad Boy" Balotelli.

Blackburn's surprise substitution left Manchester City boss Mark Hughes a little dazed.

Because Lippi removed a midfielder and replaced him with a striker, it was obvious that he wanted to strengthen the attack, but now there are Torres and Ronaldo in the penalty area, plus a Balotelli, Blackburn will remove the banned Drogba, and put all the strikers on the field.

Is this crazy Lippi? Blake didn't fall behind, and there were more than 40 minutes left in the game.

Manchester City did not make any adjustments, and continued to play according to their own tactics, and it seems that they will respond to all changes with the same.

However, before their opponents could take their attention, Blackburn took the lead for the first time of the game.

"Do you want to go out with you?"

Because in the eyes of Manchester City players, Ronaldo has always been a striker, but he didn't expect that after Balotelli came on the field, Ronaldo would appear in the position of the front midfield, so he didn't keep up in time for a while, so that Ronaldo had plenty of space to dribble the ball and find teammates at the front of the big penalty area.

Torres and others saw Ronaldo recruiting with the ball and immediately launched an attack on Manchester City's penalty area.

Alonso fought his way to the middle, but there were no more people to care about him.

The City players were very careful this time, keeping their eyes on Torres and Balotelli in the box, and they couldn't let them grab the ball again.

But what the Manchester City players never expected was that this time Alonso would actually attack the goal by himself.

Alonso's physicality is not bad, with a height of 183cm and a weight of 76kg, which is a very good figure for a player.

This time, the usually elegant Spanish midfielder gave the opposing central defender no chance to touch the football at all, and a white afterimage flashed in the blink of an eye, and the football flew into the far corner at a rapid pace, and the goalkeeper did not react.

2：3！ Away Blackburn Rovers are behind.

Blackburn Rovers once again enjoyed the joy of scoring goals, while Manchester Stadium once again became the stage for the few Blackburn Rovers fans to celebrate, singing loudly to celebrate their team.

The Manchester City players were all stunned, they didn't expect that they had missed Alonso despite the fact that they had prevented Torres and Ronaldo and other good goalscorers but still missed Alonso, although Alonso may not have scored ten goals in a season, but who can say that Alonso has no goal?

Right in front of the Manchester City players at the moment, let this guy score.

"Are you all sleepwalking!" Manchester City manager Mark Hughes angrily scolded on the sidelines, although he invested nearly 200 million pounds this season, Manchester City's results are not outstanding, which is a headache for Mark Hughes, who was poached for 5 million pounds.

Life is like a drama, some people cry, some people laugh. Sometimes it's beautiful, sometimes it's lonely.

In this game, the Manchester City team interpreted this famous saying vividly.

They took the lead again and again in the first half and put a lot of pressure on Blackburn. However, Blackburn came through again and again, instead pushing the pressure on them, and as a result, they couldn't get through it themselves.

Shortly after the start of the second half, Blackburn made a surprise substitution that brought them a goal to the back of the game.

But City won't give up on that.

After Blackburn Rovers took the lead, Manchester City stepped up their attack, causing a lot of problems for Blackburn's backline, with both wings retreating to the back, and substitute Balotelli also joining the defense to work hard for the away three points.

Taking the lead away from home, the players involuntarily gave birth to the mind of defending with all their might, intercepting the opponent's attack many times, and then passing a long pass from Alonso or someone else to Balotelli or Torres in front of the field to launch a counterattack.

However, after Manchester City solidified their backline, they did not give Balotelli and Torres too many chances.

'It was a really breathtaking game, with five goals scored in the first 60 minutes. At least for neutral fans, this game is good to watch! The on-site narrator shouted loudly.

Originally, this match was broadcast live on Sky Sports TV, but the TV station temporarily changed to another game, and now they must be regretting it.

City beat the crowd so much that tens of thousands of City fans began to sing and cheer on the team, just like the Blackburn Rovers fans before them.

But the Blackburn Rovers fans weren't to be easy to mess with, even though they had only a few thousand fans, less than a tenth of the Manchester City fans at home, but they were no weaker than their opponents.

In the following game, Manchester City made a substitution, and they brought on an attacking midfielder Petrov to strengthen the attack.

Blackburn Rovers were under tremendous defensive pressure all the time and had no respite, which made them very physically draining.

Lippi frowned at all this, and suddenly spoke: "Chen, get ready to play!" ”

Chen Tao was stunned when he heard this, and immediately rushed out of the bench with joy to start warming up, in fact, he had just warmed up and came back.

This season, Chen Tao has not played many times for Blackburn. Although he was the main midfielder of Belshort, the runners-up in the Belie Championship last season, Chen Tao has only made six appearances for Blackburn this season, including only three substitute appearances in the league.

Blackburn Rovers worked the pitch and tried their best to finally defuse City's attack.

Blackburn's counter-attack was broken off the touchline by Manchester City, and the referee called for a timeout and signalled for Blackburn to make a substitution.

Chen Tao replaced Alonso in the opposite position, but his purpose on the field was not to strengthen the defense, but to improve the firepower of the attack.

Although the current Chen Tao is still unable to compete for the ability of the main rotation players of the Blue Devils, if he is a surprise soldier in some games, his effect is still very good.

After taking the ball in the front court, Chen Tao changed direction left and right, frequently confusing the opponent at his feet, suddenly changing direction to disturb the opponent, and suddenly changing direction to completely shake the opponent, and then Chen Tao stabbed the ball with a kick, and rushed to the bottom line at high speed like wind under his feet.

"Punch your opponent with speed!" The on-site narrator shouted in surprise: "He has overtaken!" More than gone! ”

The fans watched as Chen Tao passed step by step from behind the opponent, and then passed straight into the penalty area.

Seeing Chen Tao's successful overtaking, Ronaldo immediately stood in the middle, and then responded to Chen Tao's pass with a very imaginative pass.

Balotelli made a feint and swayed, prying the opponent's center of gravity and then bursting into the front of the goal.

"Be careful!"

Zabaleta, who was keeping an eye on Balotelli, hurriedly shouted to alert his team-mate. However, whether it was Chen Tao's strong burst, Ronaldo's pick pass or Balotelli's point grabbing, it was all completed in an instant.

There was a brief moment of confusion in front of the Manchester City goal.

Subsequently......

“goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooal！”

Balotelli, who scored with a header before Given, laughed and hugged Cristiano Ronaldo, who assisted, and Chen Tao, who instigated the attack, and the score of 4:2 also sealed the victory of the game.

"Manchester City is still a little immature now, but it's also a good game!" Arthur glanced at the private room of the Abu Dhabi consortium in the stands, and he was looking forward to the arrival of the powerful golden dollar team with the Premier League title in the future!

Only a stronger opponent can show the greatness of Arthur and Blackburn!

After the win over Manchester City, Blackburn Rovers won to stop the bleeding and continue to hold the top of the table with four points ahead of Manchester United, although third-placed Chelsea and fourth-place Arsenal are only five and six points away from Blackburn.

This is the most intense season in recent seasons!

A week later, Blackburn meet Aston Villa at the Rose Theatre.

In this game, with Didier Drogba, Frank Lampard and Nemanja Vidic returning from suspension, Blackburn Rovers returned to the strongest squad, and after the Champions League exit, only the FA Cup and the Premier League were left, leaving Lippi without using a wide range of rotations.

The strongest trident of Fernando Torres, Didier Drogba and Cristiano Ronaldo lined up front, and in midfield, the combination of Frank Lampard, Gareth Bale and Cambiasso was flamboyant enough. At the back, unbanned Nemanja Vidic and Vincent Kompany formed the best centre-back pairing, flanked by Ashley Cole and McConn.

After a pick-and-roll, the game started with Aston Villa kicking off first.

In the ninth minute, Blackburn Rovers were awarded a free-kick from the right, Ashley Cole crossed and Bale headed over the crossbar. A minute later, Aston Villa had a chance to shoot, but again faced his former club Helen Pierce but missed the ball wide.

In the first half, Cristiano Ronaldo had a great chance, but his shot from the edge of the box line went wide.

Blackburn then played a flurry combination with Cambiaso and Drogba knocking back, before Frank Lampard followed up with a shot that went just wide of the right-hand post.

In first-half stoppage time, Cristiano Ronaldo fired a long-range shot from outside the penalty area, but the ball went wide of the left post.

At half-time, both sides were goalless and the game was temporarily tied 0-0.

It was the visitors who took the lead, as Aston Villa had a good chance when their cross from the left caused Kompany's reckless header to clear the ball and Helen Pierce followed up with a flanking shot over the crossbar.

In the 52nd minute, Bale's long-range shot was saved by the Aston Villa goalkeeper, and then Ashley Cole's corner was passed to the back post, the Aston Villa goalkeeper came out but couldn't find the ball, Vidic's header was successful, Blackburn led Aston Villa 1-0, his third goal of the season - three league goals for a centre-back is definitely not less.

In the 64th minute, Blackburn Rovers won a free kick on the left, Bale passed the ball to the middle of the penalty area, and the Aston Villa defender accidentally pushed the ball into his own goal when he was fighting with Ronaldo, and the score became 2:0.

But Blake would have been mistaken if they had thought they could rest easy, as Ashley Cole made a fatal mistake with a careless return pass at the back, and Helen Pierce burst into the box to shoot into the bottom left corner of the net to make it 2-1.

But soon, Blackburn was still in color, Ronaldo suddenly inserted the ball and knocked back, McCone crossed from the right, and Ronaldo, who has been unbeatable recently, nodded the ball in front of the goal, and the ball went into the bottom left corner of the goal, 3:1.

But this goal is far from satisfying Cristiano Ronaldo.

Blackburn then got a free kick opportunity, substitute Bentley crossed, the opposing defender failed to clear the ball, Ronaldo followed up and hit the goal, the score became 4:1!

However, Ronaldo's performance in this game ended there, because a minute later, he was replaced by Arshavin.

In the final moments of the game, Blackburn still had a gain, McCone made a long pass from the backfield, Drogba sent a through pass, Arshavin broke through all the defenses and hit the goal, and finally Blackburn beat Aston Villa 5-1.

Four days later, Blackburn, who had won two in a row, played Tottenham away and Lippi announced his line-up for the game before the game.

There were only three small changes to Blackburn's starting XI from the previous game, namely Bynes replacing Ashley Cole, who had sprained his left foot in training, at left-back, Marcos Alonso replacing Cambiasso as a central midfielder, and Petr Cech resting and Joe Hart getting a rare chance to play in the league.

Blackburn opened the scoring in the 12th minute, Bale dribbled with a left-footed shot from 25 yards out of the goal, and the ball flew into the far corner, Blackburn led Tottenham 1-0.

Tottenham striker Robbie Keane threatened Joe Hart's goal three times after that, but was disrupted by the excited England youngster.

After that, the two teams did not achieve anything in the first half.

At the start of the second half, Blackburn's performance improved after Lippi's midfield lecture, and it was Bale who cut into the box from the left and crossed, and Ronaldo followed up with a right-footed shot to give Blackburn a 2-0 lead over Tottenham.

Blackburn made a personnel change after the expansion of the result, Bentley replaced Cristiano Ronaldo and Arshavin replaced Drogba.

Blackburn sealed the win in the 74th minute of the game, the best player of the game, Bale sent a through ball, Bentley burst into the penalty area and scored a shot to seal the victory for Blackburn 3:0.

After the game, Lippi called it a "very good" performance and credited the victory to his players. Blackburn took the lead early thanks to Bale's goal and are the stars who can become Cristiano Ronaldo's level in the future.

Speaking to Sky Sports News, Lippi was very happy to say: "The players were fantastic, we had some setbacks in the first half because Tottenham are a good team, but in the second half we played very well. ”

'We scored three goals and hit the post once – Darmian missed the chance to extend the lead in the closing stages.

The Blues, who hurried back to Blackburn Rovers after winning from White Hart Lane, had no time to rest before they could rest before they welcomed the 33rd round of Premier League matches at the Rose Stadium - Blackburn Rovers hosted Wigan Athletic.

Because this game is too close to the last Tottenham game, Lippi began a large area of rotation, but even if he sends a completely different starting lineup from the previous game, Blackburn Rovers is still led by superstars such as Arshavin and Ronaldo, in midfield, Blue Devils captain Duff, Argentine titan Cambiaso, German chariot Ballack and Bentley are also the Premier League, and Baines, Thiago Silva, Cannavaro and Ivanovic on the back line are even more extravagant.

For Wigan, former Three Lions leading scorer Heskey is also out due to injury, but Bruce's record of 1 win, 3 draws and 2 defeats in six league games against Blackburn Rovers as coach is enough to be proud of.

The two sides fought for each other after the opening, but Wigan Athletic had the momentum of anti-opponent.

And, it didn't take long for Wigan to turn the advantage on the pitch into an advantage in the scoreline.

Wigan Athletic took the lead in the 31st minute when the aging Cannavaro made a low-level mistake in front of the box and was tackled, and Zaki fired a low shot from 14 yards.

Blackburn woke up from a dream, Duff combined with Ballack to kick the wall and then deftly dipped Cattermole, the Dane burst into the left side of the box to return the pass, Ronaldo fired a powerful shot from 10 yards to the front of the former Blackburn goalkeeper Kirkland and deflected into the net.

1:1, the two teams are back on the same starting line.

Wigan came close to taking the lead again in stoppage time when Valencia crossed from Duff and Cambiaso down the right and Zaki juggled a curling shot into the far corner from 12 yards out, only to be well focused and the tip of his finger to keep out the must-have goal.

In this way, the two sides reached a temporary draw and went into the midfield dressing room.

In the second half, Blackburn, who was sitting at home, finally showed the energy of the defending Premier League champion and scored two goals in a row to overtake the score.

In the 71st minute, Alonso split the ball on the left side, Duff cut into the left side of the penalty area to return the pass, and Ronaldo shot into the bottom right corner of the net in the arc of the penalty area.

Three minutes later, Arshavin crossed from the right and Ballack volleyed into the net for his first goal in three months.

In the end, Blackburn reversed Wigan Athletic 3:1, won all three points at home, and continued to lead the league standings.

With only five league games remaining, Blackburn's four-point lead puts their title defence within reach. (To be continued.) )