Chapter 339: The Red and Blue War, the Prelude to the Symphony
After bringing home the three points from Moscow, Manchester United have one of the most important games of recent memory.
This match is even far more important than the Champions League group stage!
In the 11th round of the Premier League, the Red Devils Manchester United will challenge the Blues Chelsea away!
Chelsea, the representative of the Premier League's Golden Dollar Football. Before the arrival of Mao's billionaire Abu, Chelsea were just an established mid-to-upper echelon team in the Premier League that missed out on the title. Fifth in the league in the 99-2000 season. 6th in the 00-01 league, 6th in the 01-02 Premier League, 4th in the 02-03 Premier Leagueใใใใใ Chelsea's results are not a strong team, nor are they a weak team.
In 03, the acquisition of Tottenham Hotspur by the rich man of Mao Guo Abramovich was unsuccessful. The arrogant "White Lily" people thought that the team's takeover by Mao Guoren was a disgrace for England. Abramovich turned to buying the debt-ridden Blues Chelsea.
Wang Jianmu, the richest man in China, once said a wise saying: Football cannot be played without money.
Abou poured heavily into Chelsea and the team gradually became a giant. In his first season at Stamford Bridge, Abu finished runners-up in the league. The following season beat the mighty Manchester United to become the league champions. In his 14 years at the helm of Chelsea, Chelsea have lifted five league titles. The era of Chelsea begins!
The beginning of one era often marks the end of another.
The rise of Chelsea marked the end of the Manchester United dynasty that dominated the Premier League in the 90s.
For Manchester United's players, coaches and fans, the match with Chelsea has nothing to do with the score, nothing to do with the rankings, only about the honor of the Red Devils! Manchester United represents the power of the Premier League's traditional giants, while Chelsea represents the Premier League's foreign capital.
There's a joke in England that the whole of England, with the exception of London's Fulham, wants Chelsea to lose all the time.
Those ordinary British people always have a kind of arrogance of "the sun never sets" in their bones. Fans can tolerate Americans being owners of Premier League teams โ because the United Kingdom and the United States share common roots and are allies. Fans can't stand the Russians being the owners of Premier League teamsใใใใใ Of course, those Blues fans don't see it that way.
In a word, every red-blue battle is no less than a war for Manchester United and Chelsea fans.
Once upon a time, Mourinho, the magic bird, built Chelsea into a team known for their rock-solid defence and iron-clad spirit. Under the leadership of the Magic Bird, Chelsea have become one of the most influential and successful teams in world football, as well as one of the most influential and successful teams in Europe and the world. Arguably, Chelsea is the strongest shield in the entire Premier League.
This season, Jose Mourinho has single-handedly created the Red Devils' 'LIL' forward combination. The combination of old lieutenants Liu Yun, Da Ibrahimovic and Lukaku swept the Premier League in the first ten rounds of the league. Arguably, Manchester United now have the sharpest spear in the entire Premier League.
The former Chelsea meritorious coach Magic Bird will lead the sharpest spear of LinkedIn to attack the strongest shield in the Premier League!
Even putting aside the deep significance of the red and blue battle, the first and second match in the Premier League will also be the most interesting game in the eleventh round!
With six days to go, players and coaches from both sides are already talking on social media and in front of traditional media reporters.
The madman Jose Mourinho did not shy away from saying: "I used to be part of Chelsea. There are fond memories of my coaching career. However, the first thing we have to do to rebuild the United dynasty is to beat Chelsea! โ
Chelsea boss Antonio Conte responded: 'Does Jose Mourinho want to take the three points at Stamford Bridge? He had to ask my players if they agreed. โ
Ibrahimovic even made a joke about Chelsea with the media.
If Ibrahimovic has a player he doesn't like the most in the Premier League, it has to be Diego Costa. Although Ibrahimovic is physically strong, he admires elegant football. Costa, the Premier League's No. 1 villain, is known for his dirty style of play.
This season, Costa fell out with the manager and the club. Conte said bluntly: "I have to clean Costa, I don't want to be killed in the dressing room. โ
Costa is a guy who doesn't go away and goes backwards. If you want to wash me, I'll have to go obediently? Not really! Costa directly refused to join AC Milan in the summer window, bent on Chelsea's half-year salary, and waited for the winter window to rejoin his old club Atletico Madrid.
Ibrahimovic tweeted: "Alas, I can't see that bearded, Pirates of the Caribbean guy at Stamford Bridge at last! โ
The war of words between Manchester United and Chelsea is not limited to coach-to-coach, player-to-player. Romelu Lukaku, Nemanja Matic and Juan Mata are all Chelsea veterans. Chelsea fans have taken to social media to denounce several people as traitors and bastards.
Liu Yun didn't want to get involved in any war of words. He believes that football is football. Is it useful to spray more foaming stars before the game? Since football is round, winning or losing is possible. There's no need to swear to beat this, defeat that.
From this point of view, Liu Yun's mentality is very stable.
When the war of words between the two sides was raging, Liu Yun was busy, and after the training in the evening, he led Isabella and Liu Xiaoyan to Albert Square in Manchester for a walk.
On Albert Square, a bald man with glasses is leaning on a cello.
In the UK, there are many such street performance artists.
The bald cellist hadn't even started playing, and there were only two or three people around him.
The bald cellist has a hat in front of him. Liu Xiaoyan took the initiative to walk over and put a pound bill into her hat.
The bald artist smiled politely at Liu Xiaoyan.
At this time, a seven-year-old British girl came to the bald artist with a recorder in her hand. She played Beethoven's masterpiece, the Ninth Symphony finale, "Ode to Joy".
The recorder sounded melodiously, and the bald artist began to pull the strings along with the little girl's melody.
Half a minute later, a middle-aged woman with a violin in her hand walked up to the two and joined the group. Then there are double basses, cellists, orchestratorsใใใใใใ Countless people with musical instruments in their hands appeared out of nowhere and joined the procession.
Liu Yunxin said that this should be the popular "flash mob" in the West.
An ensemble of dozens of people, the sound of music lingers. Countless people gathered around them.
A conductor walks up to the orchestra and the chorus begins!
Hundreds of people in the crowd began to sing the "Ode to Joy" chorus! You can tell that these people are professional singers.
"Goddess of joy, holy and beautiful, the sun shines on the earth! We come to your temple with fire-like zeal. Your charisma can bring humanity back together. Under your gentle wings, all human beings become brothersใใใใใใใ โ
Hundreds of people sang Beethoven's masterpieces, and the singing touched people's hearts.
That's how fascinating music is. Liu Yun, a middle-aged Chinese man who has been setting up a stall for 20 years, does not know any symphony, nor does he know anything about Beethoven. All he knew was that the song made his whole mood happy.
Isabella hummed the melody of "Ode to Joy" softly.
At the end of the song, all the "flash mob" musicians bowed to the audience and dispersed. Albert Platz fell into pre-dusk silence again.
What Liu Yun didn't expect was that the bald cellist did not leave, but walked towards him.