The clash between Chelsea and Manchester United will be followed by two international breaks, the 2010 World Cup play-offs in South Africa, with 25 direct quota places already available on all continents, leaving only the 12 teams with the last chance of qualifying for six finals.

Eight teams from Europe are vying for four qualifying spots, with Ireland vs France, Portugal vs Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece vs Ukraine, Slovenia vs Russia, Asia and Oceania for a qualifier: Japan vs New Zealand, and North and South America for a qualifier: Uruguay vs Costa Rica.

Chelsea is a European giant, the main team and substitute players are basically the main or substitute players of their respective national teams, so they go directly to the national team to report after the game, and the same is true for Aylo, the Chinese XX Football Association finalized this national team match day as early as two months ago to arrange a warm-up match for the Chinese team, in order to facilitate the main players playing in Europe, the Chinese team played a warm-up match with Wales at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff at 6 pm on the 15th British time, looking for a feeling, After all, next year's World Cup is only seven months away.

However, before that, the British media still reported and analyzed the just-concluded England national derby in detail.

The Times, which has always been very supportive of Chelsea and Elllo, said: "The fundamental reason why Chelsea were able to beat Manchester United at home was that Ai's individual play led the whole team's attack, two goals and one attack, compared to Cristiano Ronaldo, who scored two goals alone, is more eye-catching, plus Chelsea's technical and tactical style of play is obviously more team-oriented, while Manchester United's tactics are more inclined to reflect Cristiano Ronaldo's individual ability...... Football is a team sport, no matter how good a person is, you can't beat a team, and Chelsea is a good example of the importance of teamwork! ”

"The fundamental difference between Ai and Cristiano Ronaldo is that Ai's individual performance is based on teamwork, while Cristiano Ronaldo sacrifices the team to reflect himself, and the fundamental reason affects the final result of the game......"

Of course, in addition to the Times' praise for Chelsea and Elloh, other newspapers such as France Football, Torino Sport and Les Echo also made headlines.

At this time, Iello had already taken a flight to Cardiff to meet with the national team, and prepared for an international friendly match with the Welsh national team at Cardiff's Millennium Stadium a week later.

Therefore, when the Chinese XX Football Association announced the players recruited on the official website, many Japanese and South Korean media felt very jealous, and the combined players of the two countries in Europe did not have as many main players as the Chinese team playing in the top five European leagues.

Not all of Wales' players are from the European qualifiers for the World Cup, with most of them coming up as newcomers, such as Tottenham's Gareth Bale, Arsenal's Aaron Ramsey, Championship side Joe Allen, and of course, speed freak Bellamy and McDonald, who almost tackled Elloh.

Over time, the media in almost every country has focused on the matches of their national teams, and the same is true for the media from China.

Chinese fans thousands of miles away also pay attention to this internationally certified A-level friendly match, because this game is the time to review the overall strength of the Chinese team, although Wales is not a strong European team, but it is also a second-rate team in Europe, but it is only slightly lower, that is to say, the Chinese team can beat Wales in Cardiff, then the overall strength of the Chinese team has reached the second rate in Europe, and it has more confidence in the World Cup finals seven months later.

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On the day of the game, the Cardiff Millennium Stadium was full, and most of the Chinese studying or working in Europe came to the scene to cheer for their national team.

The Chinese team discharged the strongest lineup, the forward trident is Ailuo, Gao Lin and Hao Junmin, there is a change in the midfield, Chen Tao, Wu Xi and Zhao Xuri, the four defenders are Sun Xiang, Feng Xiaoting, Zhang Linpeng and Zheng Zhi, the main Chinese team did not disappoint the Chinese fans who came to the scene to cheer, the game started less than ten minutes to play a wonderful match, and finally by last season's Bundesliga bronze boot winner Gao Lin scored the goal.

Before half-time, Elo's individual skills were on full display, breaking through two defenders in quick succession down the middle before smashing a unreasonable long-range shot past Welsh goalkeeper Hennessey.

Ten minutes into the game, Iello and Gareth Bale each scored from a free-kick.

In the end, the Chinese team defeated the new and old Welsh national team 3:1 away.

The players who have finished their national team matches are also disbanded and returned to their respective clubs to continue their club competitions......

Two days later, the results were also available for the six teams decided in the World Cup qualifying play-offs: France, Portugal, Greece, Slovenia, Uruguay and Japan.

It is worth mentioning that the second leg between France and Ireland was controversial, and the two sides had to go into extra time after the score was 1-1 on aggregate after 180 minutes, and Henry assisted Galla to score for a handball in the 103rd minute, but the referee turned a blind eye, thus leading Ireland to say goodbye to the World Cup.

However, it has nothing to do with Iro, as China has already reached the World Cup finals and won the previous warm-up matches, so his attention has returned to the league and the Champions League group stage.

With the international break over and the players returning to their respective clubs one after another, Luka Modric and Branislav Ivanovic, who had just finished playing for the national team, both suffered strains and needed to recuperate for two weeks.

It is unknown if it was affected by Luka Modric's injury, but Chelsea won one and drawn two of their remaining three games in November, and apart from a win at home to Wolves, Porto and Arsenal failed to win away in the league, and Chelsea ended their winning streak.

United, who won the game, took the opportunity to close each other's points to three points.

Similarly, Cristiano Ronaldo's league tally has reached 24, just one goal behind Elo.

Chelsea have not lost a game from August to December except for the Community Shield defeat to Manchester United, and there have only been three draws, so Mourinho is confident that Chelsea will challenge for a third consecutive title.

However, in December, the team was annoyed by the home side in the first Carabao Cup quarter-final away to Blackburn Rovers with a two-goal lead.

Defence has always been Chelsea's strong point, and the opponent is still a team in the middle and bottom of the Premier League, Mourinho has no reason to forgive the backline for a series of poor performances, because the whole back line can only be described as a piece of in the last ten minutes!

So the day before the away game against Manchester City was gone......

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Usually in early December, nominations for major European awards are also in the final stages, with Iroh, Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi all shortlisted for the final list.

It is worth mentioning that this year's European Golden Boy Award once again has two young Chinese players shortlisted - Wu Xi and Zhang Linpeng, but the hot candidates are not them, but the demon star Pato, who has become the main striker of AC Milan.

Over the past year, everyone knows that Iroh is the best player on the planet, having continued to shine throughout the 2008-2009 season, defending all the trophies he won in 2007-2008, including the first team to do so since the Champions League was restructured. Therefore, there are no surprises in the European Ballon d'Or and the World Footballer of the Year award.

Coupled with the lead in various individual counts, it is completely safe to say that if Iello does not win the European Ballon d'Or and the World Footballer of the Year, it will be the biggest shady on the planet!

Therefore, neither France Football nor FIFA will deny the objective facts, and it is only a matter of time before Iello is elected.

December is destined to be the harvest season for Chinese football.

But at this time, Manchester City's midfield defender Frenkie de Jong, who is about to become Elo's opponent, expressed his dissatisfaction in an interview with local media in Manchester: "Chelsea's next league opponent is our great Manchester City, not some European Ballon d'Or and the World Footballer of the Year ceremony, why does the whole world revolve around him?" ”

The London media was not satisfied at the time, sarcastically saying: "Aike is recognized as the number one person in world football, do you deserve to say that?" ”

"Humph!" De Jong snorted coldly, there was already a devil in his heart ready to move: "I will let him know how good I am in the league the day after tomorrow!" I'm going to make it hard for him to move!! ”

"I'm sorry, I've forgotten that you're the first person to say this, but I can tell you that the people who said these things before have been slapped in the face, and you're going to be one of them."

"We'll see!"

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"Dutch midfielder Nigel de Jong expressed his displeasure with Ai becoming the darling of the media in December in an interview with reporters yesterday, and he asked the media to put themselves in a proper position, and the upcoming Premier League is the top priority, and in the course of the interview, he clashed with some of the media, threatening to face Chelsea at home in the league to make Ai unable to move an inch......

Iroh frowned as he watched the news.

It's not that he doesn't have confidence in the game, but that De Jong, who is nicknamed "North Dejong South Pepe" by Chinese fans, often doesn't use his brains in the game and does whatever he wants, but in his 'previous life', he kicked Xavi Alonso in the chest in the World Cup final in South Africa, and was kicked and broke a rib after the game.

In the face of De Jong, you really need to be careful, be careful, and be careful!