Chapter 30: The First Champion

“goooooooooooooooooooooal!”

This long roar seemed to exhaust the full lung capacity of the on-site commentators at Ewood Park, took a few long breaths, and continued to be excited, "The ball is in!" Blackburn! Number 10! Ibrahimovic! Header! ”

"The score became 1:0! Blackburn leads the way! ”

In his almost frantic commentary, the stands at Ewood Park erupted in a huge cheer, like an erupting active volcanic crater, and standing here you could feel the vibrations coming from your feet, making it difficult to get your feet. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info

That's the power of the stadium at Ewood Park!

All the Blackburn fans were celebrating Ibrahimovic's goal and cheering for him, chanting his name and screaming hoarsely, hysterically.

In the midst of the momentum, Ibrahimovic ran to the corner flag with open arms, and his teammates caught up with him, hugged him, and celebrated with him.

The Fulham players were stunned by the explosion, and when Ibrahimovic scored, it was as if a bombshell had been detonated in front of their goal, and they were knocked to the ground by the shockwave, and their heads were dizzy......

“goal!” He shouted along with the fans.

Seeing Ibrahimovic put the ball into the goal, Arthur waved his arm fiercely, he hugged everyone around him, he laughed happily and vented, at this time he no longer cared about the demeanor of the president of the club

Demeanor?

him!

After the goal, Ibrahimovic and Blackburn Rovers excitedly ran to the bottom of the stands to celebrate the goal with the Blackburn fans in the stands.

The Fulham players, on the other hand, were a bit distracted.

The 0-1 scoreline made their previous defense completely useless, and what should they do after that?

The Fulham players are in disarray right now and they don't know what to do anymore.

When the score is down, are we going to attack?

But when we attack, will Blackburn score more goals?

But if we defend, how can we equalize?

All sorts of problems pop up in the minds of Fulham players and go unresolved.

While the Fulham players couldn't make up their minds, the Blackburn players and coaches were very unanimous.

That is to continue to attack until the will of the opponent is broken!

When the game resumed, although the players on the Fulham field also saw Blackburn shrink the line, it was the kick-off attack, and Fulham easily put the attack into the Blackburn half and chose to shrink the line, which was normal.

After Fulham's attack was brutally but cleanly blocked by Carvalho, Blackburn attacked on the spot.

In this wave of offensives, Blackburn advanced extremely fast, and the acceleration after the conversion of offensive and defensive counterattacks has always been one of Blackburn's winning weapons.

The ball then reached the feet of Duff on the wing, and the tempo of the attack slowed slightly as Duff quickly dribbled into the baseline and met the Fulham defenders.

Duff dribbled the ball to the bottom line, but was stuck by the opponent in the direction of entering the penalty area, and couldn't find a chance to break through the pass, so he had to pass the ball back to the midfield and reorganize the attack.

This is one of the signs of the gradual maturity of Duff and Blackburn Rovers at the moment, who will not force an attack when the chances are bad, but will patiently step back and look for a new opportunity to score.

Perhaps for a super strong team like Arsenal, Blackburn's positional battle cannot tear apart the opponent's defense, and can only rely on quick counterattacks to brew killing, but in the face of teams in the middle of the Premier League, Blackburn has the absolute capital to attack.

David Dunn took the ball in front of the penalty line, looked left and right, and found that there was no good passing point, so he was about to take two steps forward, when the opponent's back came to grab the ball, David Dunn protected the ball and pushed it horizontally to Alonso, who was inserted forward.

After Arthur was reborn, there was no one who changed the most than Alonso, who he had spent all his time digging up.

In the previous life, because of the early captaincy of Real Sociedad and the relegation responsibility, Alonso was too stable, and his forward insertion was the only criticism he was criticized by the outside world.

But in this life, as the commander of the Blackburn midfield who is superior to the rest of the teams in the same league, Alonso's psychological burden is obviously much smaller, and he can really enjoy the joy of football at the age of 20, so Alonso's forward awareness and frequency are much stronger, this time as the team's midfielder, he suddenly stepped forward, and completely broke through Fulham's first line of defense.

Once the football was at the feet of Alonso, who was only technically first-class in Spanish football, he looked extremely delicate when he arrived in the English Peninsula, a non-flashy but very practical change of direction to dodge the interception of the opposing player, and then stabbed the ball into the box.

When Alonso broke through the Fulham centre-back, all eyes were drawn to the Spanish midfield, and no one noticed a player in a half-white, half-blue shirt who quickly slotted into the box.

Except, Alonso.

Benayoun rushed into the penalty area, looked back to judge the landing point of the football, and suddenly stretched out his leg and kicked forward!

By the time the Fulham players noticed, it was too late, and they saw a fast-dashing figure in front of goal, perhaps he was getting stronger and taller, but he was running fast – and more importantly, his left foot in the air just touched the football.

At this time, Benayoun was completely unopposed, and the Fulham left-back who defended him was thrown away by him as soon as possible, and when he jumped, he was the only one in the air, and the others could only stand on the ground and watch.

Benayoun met the flying football and kicked it forward!

Football straight to the goal!

The Fulham goalkeeper did not react at all to this irregular shot from close range.

He could only stand there, watching the football rush through the door he was guarding.

This is the sadness of the goalkeeper, many times the failure is not his lack of ability and adaptability, but really helpless.

“gooooooooooooooooal!”

In a long roar from the on-site commentator at Ewood Park, the stadium suddenly fell into a boil again!

When Benayoun sent the ball into the Fulham goal again, it was just 37 minutes into the first half.

Before the end of the first half, Blackburn had already led by two goals, and many people felt incredible when they saw the scoreline. After all, Blackburn and Fulham are only one place apart in the standings, even if Blackburn is at the top of the table, even if the game is their home stadium, but in terms of on-field performance, they and Fulham are not teams of the same grade at all!

"Fulham are in the Premier League next season and can only fight for relegation, and Blackburn, I really don't know what their ceiling is." Many reporters who watched the game inside the stadium recorded this in their notebooks.

After the restart, Fulham tried to attack again, and they were not willing to give in such a humiliating manner, they wanted to equalise and restore the balance, but they soon found that Blackburn were not only ferocious in attack, but also rock-solid in defence.

Many Fulham players have to admit in their hearts that it turns out that maybe Blackburn is no longer a team in the same class as them.

When they were attacking, Blackburn had a sudden counter-attack, easily sending the ball into the box and almost scoring again, which taught them a lesson that attack wasn't all that easy to play either.

While they are attacking, they must also pay attention to defense......

That left the Fulham players at a loss as they knew what to do, leaving them to stay firmly in front of goal for the remaining ten minutes of the first half, hoping that the first half would pass quickly so they could have time to adjust.

At the start of the second half, Fulham put on a front-to-head position against Blackburn.

But when the game actually went on, they felt that helplessness again - their attacks couldn't be played, and the opponent's attacks came in waves.

Fulham's players simply couldn't follow the tactics laid out by the manager at half-time, and soon the team consciously shrank their defence again. Because even if the ball is in their hands, it's hard for them to attack.

Fulham's players lost confidence in the face of Blackburn's strength.

In football, the fighting spirit and performance of one team are closely related, and there is a difference in strength between two teams. The weak team is full of fighting spirit, and it is not difficult to defeat the strong with the weak. However, in today's game, as soon as the two teams met, Fulham was instantly crushed.

The current Fulham manager was anxious on the sidelines, but his roar did not change anything, and Fulham still seemed very passive, even the strikers retreated back into their own half.

However, such a forced defense was of little use against Blackburn's attack.

In the 71st minute of the game, Finnan, who was inserted later, got the opportunity and rewrote the score to 3:0 with a violent volley.

"It's you, not me, who should regret it this time!" Facing his old club, Finnan didn't celebrate after the goal, but looking at his high-spirited former teammates, all the players at Fulham didn't feel good.

When Finnan joined Blackburn Rovers at the start of the season, all the Fulham players didn't understand his decision, but when it came to the moment, they were all envious of him.

At the moment of Finnan's goal, the Blackburn Rovers fans cheered, not only for the goal, but also for the victory, for the champion!

Champion!

2000-01 League One Champion!

That's what they could only aspire to before the season, and now their team has done it, so they're cheering and celebrating!

Arthur smiled heartily, seeing that the team he had built was about to usher in the first season of league championships, even if it was only in the second division of League One, but the joy of this success made his whole body tremble with excitement.

With a three-goal lead, there is no suspense about the outcome of the game.

When the whistle blew to mark the end of the game, Blackburn fans in the stands rushed to the front row like a tidal wave, as if they could break through the gap between the police and the billboards and break into the stadium at any moment!

"Champion! We're back in the Super League as champions! "It's a voice on the stadium radio and that's what all Blackburn fans are saying.

"Mensa, Monchi, our work is about to begin!"

After a brief moment of agitation, Arthur quickly regained his composure, at least to maintain a semblance of calm, before speaking to the club's vice-president and sporting director.

Mensa Bangsu pursed his lips and nodded vigorously, his face was wet at the moment, and he couldn't say anything.