Chelsea were Premier League champions last season.

As the defending champions, the season has only just begun, and Chelsea are the team that is in the limelight, and even Manchester United and Arsenal are not as eye-catching as Chelsea, because of Chelsea's good results, but also because of their big spending in the transfer market, and because their manager Jose Mourinho is already a controversial figure.

Twenty rounds of Premier League fixtures have been played, and Chelsea have had an almost perfect run of results, picking up 55 points, dropping just five and losing one game to Manchester United.

The Christmas war is a pivotal time.

Many media are 'expecting' Chelsea to slip down a little bit and leave a chance for the team behind them, otherwise there will be no suspense in the Premier League title race at all.

Chelsea's opponents are also difficult to deal with.

The first game after Christmas was a big game against Arsenal, then a game against local rivals Fulham, and then Manchester City, which were not easy teams to play against, and Chelsea will eventually drop some points after three games in a row, right?

The media were disappointed.

Chelsea beat home Arsenal by two goals at home, then won 3-2 at home to bitter rivals Fulham and Manchester City won by one goal in the last round of away games. In the three games, except for the game against Fulham, which was a little more difficult, the other two were early goals, and there was no suspense in winning.

The British media have not been shy about giving praise to Chelsea, and they have not been able to criticise Chelsea's flawless performances, and the media reports on Chelsea are happy to talk about Chelsea's players.

The key player in the Chelsea squad is Frank Lampard, and the stats alone speak for themselves: Frank Lampard is Chelsea's most capped player, playing all of Chelsea's league games and is also known as the 'Iron Man' of the Premier League.

In addition, Lampard has scored eleven goals in all competitions, is the player with the most goals for Chelsea, and he has the most assists, with thirteen assists, his passes, accuracy, number of shots on target, the number of yellow cards that the opponent has eaten, etc., are the first in the Chelsea team, from these numbers, it can also be summed up that Chelsea is Lampard's team, he is the real all-round king, and has maintained a stable performance in so many games. And there are such outstanding contributions in various data, even if you find all over European football, it is really very rare.

In the Chelsea team, in addition to Lampard's surprise, Robben, Drogba, Makelele and others also performed well, excluding the absolute main players, such as Gudjohnson, Bridge, Kezman and other players who wandered on the fringes of the main force and substitutes, and the performance was also very stable.

That's what really scares about Chelsea.

Their absolute main players have performed very well, and the bench players who have made fewer appearances have not been bad at all on the pitch, showing that Chelsea's overall squad is flawless, even if there are injuries to the main players, the performance will not be affected.

Chelsea's best performer in the last three rounds was Joe Cole.

Joe Cole had some fame before, but compared to Frank Lampard, Drogba and others, it was still a little worse, and his recent performance has made him Chelsea's hottest player.

"Joe Cole is my best attacker right now!" Mourinho had said this after the 3-2 win over Fulham. Joe Cole provided the winning assist in the game, and it was that assist that gave Chelsea a hard-fought win over Fulham.

After the game, Joe Cole was named Man of the Match.

"Joe Cole is out of reach at the moment." Mourinho said: "He was so good in every aspect of the game tonight. Two games in three days, but in terms of physical condition, he was a bit of a surprise. Kerr is strong and can still keep the ball under pressure from opponents. He's been very good one-on-one, he's desperate to score goals, he's been incredible, he's such a good player. ”

Joe Cole didn't do it all the time.

Joe Cole has made a key contribution in three successive league games since Christmas, scoring the winning goal against Arsenal, setting up Crespo for the winning goal against Fulham, and taking the three points away again in the final round against Manchester City.

Joe Cole is in the limelight and Chelsea are ready to keep him.

Frank Lampard was offered a lucrative contract last season and now Chelsea are ready to reward Joe Cole.

Joe Cole has been very loyal, and in an interview with reporters, he said he was on the pitch and that there was "no rush" in contract extension talks: "I want to stay at Chelsea, but I'm still in the middle of the season and I don't want to let things about my contract interfere with me. I'm the kind of guy who has to focus on the game, but the club have said they want to keep me, so we'll sit down and talk in the summer and hopefully everything will work out by then. ”

'I've had a great 2005, I've played a lot of games, I'm happy with how everything has gotten and of course for the next six months I can't sit back and think about the World Cup, I have to play for Chelsea and do well. This is the number one. ”

Joe Cole scored two goals and provided one assist in three games on Christmas, the most in recent times for Chelsea, and the Times sports section praised Joe Cole Dow, "He is using the numbers to explain what 'Chelsea's best attacker at the moment' means!" ”

A few glances at the media coverage and you can see praise for Chelsea everywhere.

But is the media genuinely praising Chelsea?

Perhaps some of the Blues' backing media are genuinely pleased with Chelsea's performance, and some neutral media have made some praise reports just to see Chelsea's good performance, but a large part of the media is not sincere.

Most of the media in the UK have no reason to support Chelsea.

England is a very magical football country, the support of various media for the team, the geographical division is very clear, it is almost impossible to let the media in the north to support the southern team, and the southern region, even if it is limited to the London region, the media are divided into several camps, except for a few media in the central and western London, the media in other places will only support the team in their own region.

The above refers to 'regional small and medium-sized media'.

When a media's influence expands, the geography of its 'influence' also expands, but they still have a regional bias, for example, the media in London will support the London team, the representative is the Times; The Manchester media will support the Manchester team, the representative of which is Manchester Sport, and other major media outlets also support their own regions.

Within the London Region, the major media will not all support Chelsea, there are many teams in the London Region, and Arsenal's historical influence is obviously not comparable to Chelsea.

In addition to the 'territoriality' of the media, the media is also important in the perception of the team.

For example, Millwall has been criticized, when the team does not perform well, negative analysis on the news comes, there are many reasons, but two reasons are important: one is that Millwall's performance is too good, when a promoted horse shows strength, it will be praised by many media, but if it performs better than the big team, it will face a series of difficulties.

The second is to publicize himself.

Millwall's performance was so outstanding that it was a young man in his early twenties who led the team? If it were an Englishman, the British media would have praised it. Chinese? In that country of football deserts, will there be any top coaches?

The media will not admit that it is 'racial discrimination' that they consider to be a necessary means of questioning.

Chelsea are in an even worse situation than Millwall.

Chelsea's results are outrageously good, after 20 rounds of the league, they have only lost five points, if Chelsea continue to do well, the Premier League title will be determined early, is it tantamount to monopolizing the Premier League?

This is definitely not going to work!

In addition, Portugal coach Jose Mourinho gave reporters a much worse feeling than flamboyance.

This 'big mouth' offends people all the time, and his fame has risen because of this, and all kinds of 'residual fans' have turned their words into 'classic quotations', and after they are posted on the Internet, they have been watched by many audiences.

Every so-called 'classic quote' is bound to have a victim, and they have become a foil to the 'classic quote', and you can imagine how many people hate Mourinho deeply.

When Millwall was about to meet Chelsea, and many media outlets came out in support of Millwall, it made sense.

Some media have compared the two teams, believing that Millwall are better than Chelsea, "Millwall are only promoted and spend no more than £5 million on summer transfers, but they have played second in the league. What about Chelsea? They have invested almost 300 million euros in three seasons, and such a large investment has only been exchanged for results that are not much better than the 'promoted horses'......"

'Chelsea have been playing very utilitarian! They have such a luxurious squad and yet play ugly football! Even Millwall's football is much better than theirs! ”

'It wouldn't be surprising if Millwall could beat Chelsea! Because Millwall beat Manchester United, and Manchester United beat Chelsea! ”

“……”

The media reports made Zhang Yang feel very comfortable.

From the start of the season until now, Millwall have faced many opponents, but this is the first time they have received so much support.

In English football circles, the reputation of Zhang Yang is very average, I can't talk about how bad it is, and the whole is definitely not positive, but compared to Mourinho, who is about to become the 'public enemy of English football', his reputation is much better.

With such multimedia support, Chelsea feels like they've become villains.

Millwall became a warrior to challenge the boss.

When the warrior and the boss face off, a large crowd of spectators wave their arms and cheer on the warrior.

This feeling...... It's actually pretty good!