There is a saying in the movie The Shawshank Redemption that life is either busy living or dying.

Heideward was waiting for Benitez to finish his interview, he suddenly felt a little pity for this old guy, the home team was defeated by Portsmouth, who played semi-mainly, and the sharp questions of the media almost made him unable to get off the stage, and the reporter asked what he thought of the slogan of missing Di Matteo in the stands, and the old coach who had been in England for five or six years actually shirked that he couldn't read English. He repeatedly emphasised that most of the Chelsea fans were nice to him, that the naysayers were only a small fraction of them, and that the old man even took out his phone to show people the messages of encouragement the fans had sent him.

Heideward stopped the reporters from making things difficult for Benitez and brought the conversation to Chelsea's new signing Antonio Rudiger, and the old coach sighed as he watched the young head coach expertly answer all sorts of tricky questions, just like today's game, which is actually an overview of Heideward's style, he is wise and capable and full of planning, light and breezy, writing, recording, asking, rarely making a big catharsis, he seems to be an outlier among the players.

Of course, it is true that Lao Bei did not listen carefully to Ward's dialogue with a gun and a stick, as the saying goes, endure for a while, take a step back and intensify it, he Rudiger is not a review editor, why can't he be scared?

Speaking at the press conference, Ward said: "To be honest, I don't like the way this guy (people) moves, Chelsea are a good club but Portsmouth is also great, I want Chelsea to be bluer than he dreamed of, I want ......" He stood up after saying such philosophical words.

The reporter slapped Hydward who was leaving with his sleeves away, and Benitez also took the opportunity to get up and leave, he thought about the last sentence and thought about it, and couldn't help laughing, is Chelsea the blue in his heart? "I hope," he lamented.

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After the first leg of the EFL Cup semi-finals, Portsmouth will travel non-stop to challenge Sunderland, who just gave Manchester City a little color in the last round, a small victory, and the strength should not be underestimated. This round they will be hoping to continue their home run for a two-game winning streak.

Sunderland's idea was good and did cause problems for Hydward, with Swedish midfielder Sebastien Larsson scoring from a corner in the 11th minute with an assist from former Manchester United player O'Shea.

Martin O'Neill is undoubtedly an experienced manager, Ferguson said of him, "If I were going to go to a football TV quiz show, I would pick Martin as a teammate, he knows everything" O'Neill is also quite confident in his expertise, he once said in a press conference: "I'm getting older, but the players are getting younger and younger, I have to keep learning to connect with them", and you will see that in the win over Manchester City, the team's young defender Bramble is making mistakes, and the coach is taking notes on the sidelines.

"And then keep making mistakes"

Hydward's joke was unexpectedly said on the pitch, Bramble's reckless tackle allowed De Bruyne to break through in the midfield, and then Kevin's pass found Mane behind the defence with three players, who dribbled past goalkeeper Mignolet in one fell swoop. It was Mane's 10th league goal this season, averaging 0.45 per game, sixth in the Premier League.

It is said that the local rookie who was very optimistic about Arsenal immediately collapsed after making a mistake, and with his impatience he gave away a penalty, Belotti's fall was exaggerated, and the youngest referee in the Premier League, Michael Oliver, still gave this opportunity, and Srna faced Mignolet, who was good at saving, to play the right corner to overtake the score.

You could tell from Martin's face that he was surprised by the fragile mental endurance of England's youngsters, and Bramble was by no means the first nervous in the league, so he wasn't sure if it was a weakness in the team. In O'Neal's more than 30 years of coaching, his team has proven over and over again that Celtic's treble-winning team, even Champions League winners Jose Mourinho's Porto, have not been afraid to bring that to the Black Cats.

On the other hand, Heidward felt playing Sunderland was playing a pirate of Chelsea, with O'Neill resembling Benitez in many ways in that they were very tight and organised and disciplined. It seems that many of Sunderland's players are afraid of the coach and hate his strict rules.

In a way, this team is much more difficult to play than Chelsea a few days ago, because the players who can play on the pitch are players who feel connected to the manager, respect each other and hit it off, and O'Neal's coaching staff are all British, and they stand in the middle of the players like their boss.

This is not an unassailable team, though, and Hydward has gathered some news about Sunderland, who have had a lot of unpleasant problems as a team on the English island of Bernard for 10 days during the busy Christmas schedule. The area around the training base was desolate, nothing better, boring, and many of the players felt like training was hard labor. If the hotel conditions are good enough, the training conditions are good enough is an inconsequential trifle, but when the results of the game are not satisfactory, the problem will be exposed, Sunderland can still be in full form before the training camp, and the training camp is a four-game losing streak.

The players began to blame the boring environment or Martin's squad, and Sunderland captain O'Shea later publicly stood up for the manager, saying that the complaints he heard during the training camp made him dare not imagine, the players were bitter and childish, and the worst memory was that the players complained that they had to walk 40 metres to go to the physiotherapy room, they were used to having physiotherapy in the hotel, and they wanted the coach to follow this habit. O'Shea didn't name his team-mates, but he felt there were people in Sunderland's squad who thought highly of themselves and were acting like children.

O'Shea's remarks were supported by die-hard fans, and within five days we had a major event to play, and someone was unhappy to walk an extra 40 meters for physiotherapy?

After the conflict was made public, Martin handled it well, saying that he would turn a blind eye to allowing the players to make small complaints, and he said at the press conference that he would not talk about such frivolous things because he did not want to embarrass himself. Naturally, this incident was forgotten, but someone remembered it, and he was very curious about who the little brother who would rather die than walk an extra 40 meters was?

So, Hydward asked Kevin to talk to the little brother more, and the matter was suddenly much better.

The two goals conceded undermined O'Neill's established bucket strategy and allowed him to completely surrender the initiative of the game to the enemy.

After half the game, Martin adjusted his tactics in the second half, and Heideward played almost the same strategy as he had done at the Bridge four days earlier, with Kevin De Bruyne setting up a goal and then scoring a long-range shot himself before clocking out, and Mustafi, who likes to cut forward, also scored his first goal of the season, 1-4.

Ward looked at O'Neill's thick stack of notes, and couldn't help but sigh again: "The master is in the people, and the miss is in the underworld." "Martin lost a little bit wrongly. Fupin Chinese