Chapter 419: A New Era in the Premier League (Part II)

"In England, there are two small children. They played together on the street for 12 years and were evenly matched. ”

"Now, a third child has broken in, and it's playing better than these two."

"Then of course the two children before will be unhappy!"

This was compared by Chelsea CEO Kenyon in his comments on the hypocrisy of Manchester United and the Gunners after the win.

In Kenyon's view, it has been an important part of Chelsea's branding. It is not difficult to understand that a great team must have its great enemies.

Manchester United vs. Liverpool, Arsenal vs. Manchester United; Real Madrid vs. Barcelona, Milan vs. Juventus. Chelsea need a great enemy, or even several, to make themselves a great team.

From the outside world, Kenyon is making enemies for the team.

Chelsea won the league title last season and the Blues still don't seem to be letting go.

The Magic Bird needs the limelight, Chelsea needs the limelight.

But the limelight comes from tradition, from the accumulation of the past.

Manchester United and Liverpool are the biggest rivals in English football history, and the battle between Manchester United and Arsenal has attracted more attention in the last decade.

Historically, Chelsea have not been able to find such an opponent and an enemy for themselves, and the reason for this is that their own strength is not good.

Before the Magic Bird moved in, the Blues' enemies were more of football hooligans, such as Millwall, West Ham.

Chelsea have the present, and even the future, but the past debt cannot be paid off in a day or two. Kenyon has also admitted that turning Chelsea into an AC Milan-like club is a long-term project.

But Roman Abramovich's Chelsea want to be fast, as fast as possible, and what Kenyon did, and what he should do, was to do everything in his power to make Chelsea grow quickly.

So there was Kenyon Secretaria Erickson, and Kenyon illegally contacted Ashley. Cole, Kenyon secretly interviewed Leo. Ferdinand.

Unscrupulous indeed!

Now, Kenyon is talking about the hypocrisy of Manchester United and Arsenal and that Chelsea will defend their league title.

Still unscrupulous!

To outsiders, Kenyan's rhetoric was indeed provocative.

It doesn't matter though, as there are already a lot of Blues fans who look up to it as a model.

Think about the feud between Arsenal and Manchester United, and the most eye-catching factor is not the players on both sides ready to fight, and the posture of Ferguson and Wenger? In the world of black and white football, many times it is the black pieces that attract people, or attract many people. Those who are rude, even rude, those who are bloody, we often say have a part of character.

In the new season, the Premier League undoubtedly has a huge attraction - has the Premier League entered the "blue era"?

Defending champions Chelsea need to establish a new 'dynasty' in the Premier League through the new season.

Although Chelsea still appear to have deep pockets compared to other clubs, such as in the fight against Wright. In the race for Phillips, Chelsea knocked out all their opponents as soon as they made a bid, causing the player's price to soar blindly.

However, Chelsea are no longer as spend-busty as they used to be, and they are shedding their 'nouveau riche' image.

In the summer transfer market, Chelsea's recruitment efforts have been greatly reduced, and they also said that they do not want to be the "wronged leader" who is blackmailed.

Chelsea have had more patience in the transfer market precisely because their current squad is quite neat and strong.

In fact, Chelsea's squad has few weaknesses and is full of depth.

Crespo and Drogba are two powerful "arrows", plus Robben, Duff, Joe. Cole and Wright. Phillips formed a strong group of wingers, enough to form two completely different but full of firepower "trident".

In central midfield, the likes of Frank Lampard, John Terry, Petr Cech and others played all the key games last season and were in extremely consistent form. Coupled with the extremely rational coach Jose Mourinho, judging from the lineup alone, the Premier League powerhouses may have the meaning of "shaking the mountain, shaking Chelsea is difficult".

Just when the fans were fascinated by the luxury of the second-generation blue battleship, and when Manchester United and Gunners fans were talking about the "blue threat theory", there were bursts of cheers in another venue, another unique red battlefield.

August 23, at Anfield.

After thinking about it a few times, Bei Bald discharged a semi-main lineup.

said that it was a semi-main lineup because Tang Wu was still standing on the last line of defense. Steven Gerrard, Marcos Alonso, Luis Garcia, Reese, Morientes and Hamann were all left out of the starting line-up due to injury and other reasons.

Except for the three familiar faces of Tang Wu, Hyypia and Cisse, almost all of them are substitutes and new faces.

In the history of the Champions League, CSKA Sofia has eliminated the reigning champions of the Champions League three times. They were Ajax, Nottingham Forest and Liverpool in the 81-82 season.

But even though Bei Bald was on a set of "semi-main" lineups, the thousand CSKA Sofia fans who came from afar still had a tragic heart.

They don't look like they're here to see the team qualify, but more like they're going to see how the team gets a bite out of Liverpool.

After the opening, CSKA wanted to repeat history to dominate the field, but even without the likes of Steven Gerrard, Alonso and Hamann in midfield, the red giant did not fall.

We have TOM, do we need to go through the midfield to attack?

Looking at the balls flying forward in the sky again and again, Liverpool staged a first-class defensive counterattack in front of fans all over the world.

Simple, fast, precise and efficient.

No one could stop Tang Wu's big feet like cannonballs, and no one could stop the whirlwind of Cisse.

Again and again, and so on.

Gradually, CSKA was numbed by Liverpool's simple mechanical counter-attack.

But this is Liverpool's real chance!

In the 68th minute of the second half, Cisse ran to the ball as fast as he could. The left foot is lifted to the outside and the ball lands accurately on the outside side of the left foot.

The Frenchman took advantage of the opportunity and picked the ball over the head of Todorov, who was on the top of the grab.

After a simple and flashy man-ball split, the French striker found that there was a large gap in front of him.

One step, two steps, three steps...

Just as he was about to take the fourth step, the Frenchman suddenly slowed down.

I saw his right toe gently pick under the ball, and the ball crossed a beautiful arc in the air and landed accurately in the gate behind the goalkeeper.

Then, in the midst of the "Firebird" waving all over the sky and the singing that you will never walk alone, the Reds defeated CSKA Sofia with a two-legged record of 4-0 to successfully qualify for the Champions League.

At the post-match press conference, Benitez was in high spirits and beaming.

When facing reporters about the ownership of this season's league championship, Bei Bald touched the top of his shiny head and said into the microphone.

"Champion?"

"Sorry, it's the beginning of the season and I don't want to talk about the end of the season."

"But you just reminded me that Liverpool are about to win their first title of the new season!"

It wasn't until the BBC advertised with the headline "Liverpool is about to win the league's first title" that people discovered that the Premier League had not completely turned blue.

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