London! This ancient city seems to have regained its vitality and vitality, and the trees on both sides of the street are hung with various slogans and banners promoting the Champions League.

Even many stores have posted logos about the Champions League, and some clothing stores have begun to carry out Champions League promotions, and when it comes to making fun, Westerners are actually no worse than Chinese.

Because on the same day, London has two teams due to the group stage of the Champions League, one is Arsenal and the other is Chelsea, both of which are expected by the whole of England, so they want to see two wins.

With the media from all over the world flocking to the city of London, it seems that the old city has become more lively than usual, and everywhere you can see reporters with microphones interviewing fans along the road.

Although the Champions League is different from the World Cup, it is held every year, but its influence is increasing year by year, in the eyes of professional football fans, the Champions League represents the highest level of competition in football, and the World Cup, is more symbolic and a grand festival.

In this strong Champions League atmosphere, the match between Chelsea and Bayer Leverkusen, which should not have been the focus of attention, has become the focus of the world's attention.

The reason is very simple, those who hate Chelsea want Chelsea to be eliminated completely, and then they can open a beer to celebrate, who made Chelsea have such an arrogant Lin Yu and such an arrogant Mourinho.

Those who like Chelsea hope that Chelsea can beat Bayer Leverkusen in this game, show their real strength, and take the initiative of promotion in their own hands.

The media attention has not affected the players' form. As the main striker of this game, Lin Yu is full of confidence. He said in an interview that he would win this game. It must also be taken, otherwise he will slap himself in front of the media.

This is his persecution of himself, a strong hint to himself, he is afraid that he will give up and be lazy, so he is ruthless to himself in order to really put into the game.

After listening to Lin Yu's words, Chelsea fans naturally swelled with confidence, and they also believed that Lin Yu could score. I believe that Lin Yu can help the team to win, after all, Mourinho has returned, he is sitting on the sidelines, watching every player and watching this game.

However, opponents Bayer Leverkusen also seemed to grasp Chelsea's eagerness to win, and they put in an iron bucket formation to deny Chelsea a chance to score.

Truth be told, there aren't many ways for Jose Mourinho's side to break down a dense formation, unless it's an individual player. Otherwise it would be difficult to get the ball into the box and create excellent chances.

So almost 40 minutes into the first half, the score was still 0-0, despite Chelsea's attacking rush. But it was impossible to penetrate Bayer Leverkusen's goal, and Hyypia seems to have studied Chelsea's game footage in detail, so let's make corresponding tactical arrangements. Today's game is definitely not going to be good.

'So far in the game, Chelsea have the upper hand. But he couldn't find the back of the net, and Bayer Leverkusen's defense was tenacious! But I'm not worried. Chelsea have the advantage of home field, coupled with Lin Yu's superstar effect that can explode at any time, it may only be a matter of time before a goal is scored, but I am more worried about the Maori frizzy Luiz, and I hope he doesn't make a mistake because he hasn't scored for so long, which is not a good thing. ”

"In this game, Luiz partnered with the central defender is Varane, although Varane's defensive ability is very strong, but after all, he is inexperienced, unlike Terry who can wipe Luis's defensive mistakes in time, which requires Luis to concentrate more on what he should do, this kid is obviously a defender, but he has a striker's heart, I really don't know how he chose the position of defender when he played."

Jose Mourinho was a little unable to sit still on the sidelines, although he also had confidence in his players, he could not afford to lose this game, he shouted many times into the field, just to make the players pay attention not to focus on the attack and forget the defense, because Bayer Leverkusen's attack is still very strong.

"Jose, you're so nervous!" The assistant coach, who is also an old friend of Mourinho, walked over and patted Mourinho on the shoulder and said with a smile.

"No, I'm not nervous." Mourinho shook his head.

"Don't be nervous, you see your brows are about to wrinkle into a flower now, in fact, why worry so much, you should believe them, they are championship players, and you are the championship coach, if you can't even win Bayer Leverkusen, then how can you talk about winning the Champions League in the future?"

Jose Mourinho let go of his grip and let out a long sigh of loss, he was indeed a little overly nervous, just after the end of the ban, he hoped that he could change the embarrassing situation of Chelsea's Champions League winlessness, and it was understandable to show such nervousness.

"People say that Chelsea in the second half can't be provoked, in fact, I think this makes a lot of sense, most of Chelsea's players have good physical strength, and you find that no, Lin Yu generally doesn't score a lot of goals in the first half, and most of his goals are concentrated in the second half." The assistant coach said again.

"I know this, and I also talked to him about it, when Lin Yu told me that the reason why he scored fewer goals in the first half was because of two reasons." Mourinho said as he reflected on that day.

"What are the two reasons?"

"The first reason is that he's watching the opponent's tactics and the opponent's playing habits! Sometimes tactics can be adjusted, but the players' playing habits are hard to change. ”

"What about the second reason?"

"He gave an example that if each player's physical strength is 100, his physical strength may be more than 100, in the first half, there is not much difference between each other, and his advantage is not obvious, but in the second half, the opponent's physical strength may be about 50, and he is still 100, so that he has to make some passing moves, it will be much easier, so he will choose to break out in the second half."

"Now that you know, what are you worried about, just sit down and watch the game, as long as you don't lose the ball, wait for Lin Yu to break out in the second half."

"yes, what do I have to worry about, I have an ACE in my hand!"

Mourinho smiled. He stopped standing on the sidelines, but returned to his seat and sat down.

Throughout the first half. Bayer Leverkusen is basically under the intensive fire of Chelsea and can not concede a goal. It was a miracle that they had only two shots on goal in the first half, which is a bit too big compared to Chelsea's 15 shots.

Perhaps the Leverkusen people, including Bayer Leverkusen coach Hyypia, will think that the first half can withstand Chelsea's onslaught, which is already half the victory, but unfortunately they still don't seem to understand that Chelsea in the first half is compared to Chelsea in the second half. That's just a drop in the bucket.

When they went back to the dressing room to rest, both teams also knew the situation of the other game that was closely related to them, now AC Milan 2-0 Sparta Moscow, it seems that AC Milan have played their advantage and started to actively collect group points, which is even more unfavorable for Chelsea, they have to win this game anyway, otherwise. After this game, they may even be directly at the bottom of the group, and the prospects of qualifying are slim.

In fact, for Chelsea, it doesn't matter if AC Milan wins or Sparta Moscow wins. They don't particularly care who the second place in this group will be, because they still want to fight for the top spot in the group, just win all the next games. Then the group leader is theirs.

In the Chelsea dressing room, Mourinho didn't say much. He told his players that it would be fine to continue with pressing attacks in the second half. At the same time, be careful not to have problems with defense.

He actually wanted to ask Lin Yu a question, so he called Lin Yu aside alone.

"Are you sure you scored in the second half?"

"What do you mean?"

"I remember what you said to me before, you said you're more used to outbursts in the second half, and that's not a joke, right?" Mourinho has to make sure, otherwise he still has no bottom on his mind.

"Of course it's not a joke, coach, if I can't score within fifteen minutes of the second half, you just replace me, I don't care, I won't blame you." Lin Yu's words were a little annoying, after all, he was still a child, and he didn't like the feeling of not being trusted.

"Stinky boy, I'm still angry! Well, it's my fault, you play well, try to play Chelsea, play your own momentum, I'm sure you can do it! Mourinho kicked Lin Yu in the ass and scolded with a smile.

"Hehe, that's right, coach, who don't trust, can you still distrust me? Just leave it to me in the second half, don't think that there is no danger in the grass if it's quiet, I want Bayer Leverkusen to know that there is a Galen in every grass! I'm going to scare them to death! “

"What Galen?"

"It's nothing, the second half is almost starting, I'm going to go to the bathroom." Lin Yu stuck out his tongue, turned around and ran away.

Lin Yu, who was running, couldn't help but grit his teeth, and secretly said in his heart: "I don't dare to say that to you, but I swear that before I leave Chelsea, I must leave the most glorious record here, let Chelsea fans have a carnival, and let Chelsea truly become a giant that can stand proudly!" I swear! The group stage can't stop us, and the knockout stage can't stop us either! ”

Lin Yu really did what he said, and the second half was also a dense attack, but Lin Yu was obviously more active than in the first half.

When it comes to breaking dense formations, it's nothing more than set-piece tactics, long-range shots, and relying on players with good skills at their feet to bring the ball directly into the box to create chaos, or relying on players with good footwork to pass beautiful passes that can scare both opposing defenders and goalkeepers.

And this time, Lin Yu used a very simple method, that is, a free kick.

There were also free kick opportunities in the first half, but Lin Yu failed to score, three free kicks, the first time he kicked directly away, because the power was too great, the second time hit the crossbar, almost scored, the third time the power was a little small, and was saved by the opponent's goalkeeper Leno.

It was Chelsea's fourth free-kick opportunity and Lin Yu was once again in front of the ball.

A free-kick master doesn't need to score every free-kick goal, all he needs is that he can score a game-changing free-kick, and that's enough.

"Chelsea have a lot of good free-kicks, and Lin Yu's footwork doesn't seem to be going well today, so it might be better to hand it over to Frank Lampard or Luiz." The commentator has little confidence in Lin Yu, after all, he didn't score three free kick opportunities in the first half, which is no wonder.

But the commentary does not represent the players of Chelsea, for the players in the team, it has long been determined that Lin Yu is the best free kick penalty taker, even Lampard has taken a back seat, although Lampard started this game, but he did not grab a free kick with Lin Yu, and did not even say a word, he believed in Lin Yu as if he believed in himself.

Standing in front of the ball, Lin Yu took a deep breath, and then his eyes were fixed on Bayer Leverkusen's goal, which was not a meaningless staring, but some calculations.

The first three free kicks, his judgment was a little wrong, probably because of the wind today, but this goal, he must learn from the experience of the first three failures and kick the most beautiful free kick.

When Lin Yu was very young, he listened to his teacher talk about "failure is the mother of success", at that time he didn't understand the meaning of this sentence at all, but today, he has completely understood.

When the referee blew the penalty whistle, he began to run, and the collision of his foot and the ball attracted the attention of countless fans...... (To be continued......)