Aston Villa manager Martin O'Neill never thought Chelsea would score so early, but he thought that the team would not concede a goal at least in half time, so he did not concede the first goal before the game, which is extremely detrimental to the team's future development.

In order to ensure that the game went smoothly, he called the captain Barry to his side to give a few words before returning to the coach's seat.

However, the game will not go as he planned before the game, because the biggest characteristic of football is unpredictability.

Just before half-time, Frank Lampard received a return pass from Iello and fired a shot straight from 25 yards out, sending the ball like a cannonball into the corner of the net, leaving veteran American goalkeeper Friedel stunned again.

Friedel could not have imagined that he would be beaten twice by a Chelsea player in the same game with a long-range shot, a situation rarely seen in his many years of career, and at this moment he began to wonder if he should choose to retire and leave the first-choice goalkeeper to the youngster......

For today's mature Chelsea, if they can lead by two goals at half-time, then the opponent basically loses the room to counterattack, because even teams of Manchester United and Liverpool cannot score two goals in a row on Chelsea, let alone Aston Villa, who is in the middle of the Premier League?

In the end, Chelsea added a 3-0 win over home Aston Villa before the game, but with Manchester United also winning the league at home, the gap remains at 11 points.

At the end of the weekend, for the European giants, they are all preparing for the first leg of the next UEFA Champions League 1/8 finals, and the same is true for Chelsea, their opponents are very strong, known as the greatest football club of the 20th century - 'Galaxy Battleship' Real Madrid!

As a result, the mainstream European media has also quickly focused on the upcoming Champions League knockout rounds, while the attention of the London and Madrid media is focused on Real Madrid's Champions League 1/8 final against Chelsea.

Before the two armies clashed, players from both sides of the game naturally became the focus of interviews, especially Chelsea veteran Arjen Robben, who was once an extremely important part of Mourinho's four-three-three system, but due to personal physical reasons, the number of appearances became less and less season by season, forcing Chelsea to finally give up on him.

In addition, with the addition of Ello in the 2007-2008 season, he played steadily and rarely got injured, so Mourinho agreed to sell Robben to the team's top management, and Robben himself knew very well about these public insiders, but the problem was that he had always believed that he could return to the top at Chelsea, but what he didn't expect was that he would be sold by the club, which was a very big blow to his self-confidence at that time......

Speaking to local media in Madrid at Real Madrid's first-team training base, Arjen Robben said of Chelsea's selling: 'I'm very happy at Real Madrid right now because I'm recognised by the best fans in the world and it's a great feeling! I don't want to say much about Chelsea's problems, after all, they have their own considerations, but I am sure that I will help the team to knock out Chelsea at the Santiago Bernabeu! ”

News spreads very fast in modern society, and the content of Robben's interview in Madrid in the morning reached London in the blink of an eye, and Chelsea's England international Ashley Cole was very upset when he heard it, and he said directly: "Want to eliminate our Chelsea? No kidding! Didn't you know that Real Madrid hadn't reached the quarter-finals of the Champions League for several seasons? You know, we're Champions League winners! Do European champions understand? The players with the glass physique don't have any say!! ”

Soon, the captain of the team, John Terry, also came forward for an interview, but considering Robben's contribution to Chelsea, he only said vaguely: "Although a lot of games depend on the individual performance of the players, at least I think the current Real Madrid backline can't limit Ai!" Plus...... He scored more than a dozen goals in two and a half seasons against Real Madrid......

In the Champions League 1/8 final between Real Madrid and Chelsea at home, in addition to individual players, Real Madrid coach Juan Ramos also became one of the protagonists.

As we all know, the fundamental reason why he was sacked by Tottenham was the collapse and defeat in the third round of the league away from Chelsea at the beginning of the season, which led Chelsea by two goals in the first half of the first half, but he didn't expect that Elo's substitute came on to stage a big four, which directly stunned Tottenham, and then Tottenham's results began to decline, and fell to the brink of relegation, so that Tottenham's senior management did not hesitate to take out the termination money to fire him......

Therefore, Juan Ramos's hatred for Chelsea is also very high.

And as the game approaches, Iroh also joins in the war of words.

It didn't take long for the future Real Madrid team vice Ramos to publicly state in an interview with reporters that he wanted to teach Aelo a good lesson in this Champions League 1/8 final.

So Iroh was interviewed by reporters on the eve of going to Madrid with the team, and said-for-tat: "I haven't abused him for a long time, I miss him very much!" ”

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Before the game, the players of both sides started to spit on each other, which naturally attracted the attention of the mainstream media and most fans in Europe.

In particular, the grievances between players and teams and between players are all news that fans like to watch in their spare time, and they are also the selling points of mainstream European media.

The Marca news headline said, "Chelsea have been in very good form recently, but they are not invulnerable, at least they lost to Arsenal in the 64th unbeaten run of the league, which means they have a fatal hole, as Carvalho ages, the stability of the back line is not as stable as it was then, and the two wings are also full of holes, the wings that like to participate in the attack will inevitably be used by the two wings of Real Madrid, Robben can be said to know very well about the current Chelsea defence, as long as he seizes an opportunity." , then beating Chelsea at the Bernabeu shouldn't be a big problem! ”

“…… The problem of defending the biggest evil star in the Chelsea team is also simple, I believe that the mature Sergio Ramos will definitely limit him perfectly on the right side, coupled with Cannavaro's experience, giving the entire back line full confidence, and Lassana Diarra's abundant physical fitness can make the defensive area in the middle very large, while completing his own defensive tasks, he can also assist the team to defend Ailo's attack, if the state is slightly better, Real Madrid will not have much problem beating Chelsea at home! ”

The report of As, another Madrid media supporter of Real Madrid, is not much different, and it is more professional than the targeted report of Marca.

At this time, almost all the Spanish media supported Real Madrid beating Chelsea, because now the mainstream media in Europe almost regard the Premier League as the best league in Europe, but in the minds of the Spanish media, La Liga is the best league, so the Champions League 1/8 final between Real Madrid and Chelsea has become a direct confrontation between the two leagues, which team wins, there is a more sufficient basis!

Only Valencia Sport is on Chelsea's side: "Three days later, Chelsea will challenge Real Madrid at the Bernabeu, if nothing else, Chelsea will beat Real Madrid away, because Real Madrid is no longer the Real Madrid of the six superstars, plus Ai's record against Real Madrid during the Valencia period, we can find a lot of clues, you must know that many Chelsea players are much stronger than the players at that time in Valencia, And the current Ai is stronger than the previous Ai, is it difficult to win at the Bernabeu? ”

"The Times", as a supporter of Chelsea, naturally will not be cowardly at this time, "Today's Galaxy Battleship Real Madrid has been lonely, not the frightening team of the past, but now Chelsea is such a deposit, unbeaten in 63 consecutive league games, this is a result that Real Madrid has not achieved at its peak, plus Chelsea's number one star Ai is in good shape, and the last round of the league helped the team beat Aston Villa away, I believe this Champions League 1/ The first leg of the 8-year finals will also be in excellent form, and he has won all two and a half seasons in Valencia against Real Madrid! This is an indelible existence, so it can be easily deduced that Chelsea can beat Real Madrid at home! ”

It is worth mentioning that in addition to the Spanish media who are more supportive of Real Madrid, more European mainstream media are still optimistic about Chelsea playing away!

Sometimes a star in great form is enough to make the difference between winning and losing a game, and Iroh ...... That's what kind of storage zài!

On the afternoon of the 23rd, Chelsea arrived at Madrid's Barajas Airport, and countless reporters who came to the airport in advance blocked their way to the bus, and finally the airport security personnel came forward to escort them to leave the airport.

But there was a lot to do, and the powerful media reporters came to their hotel with a Chelsea hired bus in Madrid.

For the fly-like journalists, a number of Chelsea players had to be interviewed by them.

It's just that taking into account the gag order issued by Mourinho before the game, the players don't know anything, and in the end, these reporters can only look at each other, so they have to wait until the regular press conference before the game to visit the relevant players.

At the regular press conference on the afternoon of the game, Mourinho brought Elo, and in the face of media interviews, the two said very tacitly: "At the Bernabeu, I never thought of returning empty-handed!" So...... We're here to win! ”