Chapter 21: Grasp Your Destiny
Hiddink's ninth official game in charge was against four wins, four draws and two defeats in the first ten league games, losing only to Arsenal and Manchester United, and in the Carabao Cup, he won against one of Arsenal's promoted sides: Willingham.
And what is annoying is that in the first three days of this game, Chelsea will go to Rome for the Champions Cup away game, due to the defeat at home to Roma in the last round, and before the home and away draw twice with Bordeaux, Chelsea in the first round of the Champions Cup round-robin results only achieved one win, two draws and one loss, and Bordeaux team tied for second, if the boat capsized again at the Rome Olympic Stadium, and this round Bordeaux defeated Athens AEK, In the final round, the two teams of France and Italy are likely to join forces to squeeze Chelsea out of the Champions League, which is absolutely unacceptable to Abou.
It is said that the purchase of Xiao Luo, and the invitation of Abu's favorite Hiddink, the results of the Chelsea Champions Cup, which has no one in comprehensive strength, should not be so bad, but in fact, the integration of Xiao Luo and Chelsea has not yet been completed, and the world's strongest football players and the world's strongest football clubs seem to be unable to torture opponents according to a line of thought, and usually the torture becomes themselves.
And Hiddink in the league to the original style of play, so the results are not bad, so far is five wins, four draws and one loss, overwhelmed Willingham back to the top four, in the Champions League focus on trying to Xiao Luo as the core of the team, the initiator of the offensive and defensive conversion, it brought the Champions League three rounds of winless, Chelsea's key task now is to win against Roma and Athens, so that their Champions Cup games back on the normal track, so, Hiddink brought all the main forces to Rome. Including John Terry and Didier Drogba, who have minor injuries, and as for the subsequent match against Willingsham, the Dutch boss can only think about it after taking Roma......
Just when Chelsea was preparing to fight with Totti's Roma team in Rome City, London, Willingham Club, ushered in more than a dozen young players who came to tryout, which is Maori selected in various youth teams abroad during this period of time He thinks he has great potential for development, and now the youth team in London has begun to appear in scale, and five players of several age groups have begun to travel in the English Youth League. It's a pity that the young talents available for selection in the UK are basically targeted by other clubs early, so there are no outstanding talented teenagers in the English local youth team of the Willingham Club, which has long been expected, so Lao Liu asked Maori to go to other foreign youth teams to select some young players worthy of training, ready to supplement the local youth team, and at the same time, it is also a momentum for those youth teams.
Among this group of junior players, two Asians stand out in particular: Kim Nam-viol, winger of North Korea's Kings Victory Club, and Tong Xinwen, a striker for China's Harbin Willingsim Junior Team.
Kim Nam Yue is different from others, he still belongs to the North Korean Kingsd Victory Club, this time it is as the support of the English super team Willingham to the Kingsd Victory Club will have the opportunity to come to England to study, and Tong Xinwen and other European teenagers from Belgium, Sweden, Hungary, Wales, will temporarily become a member of the local youth team of Willingsmu, if he can stay after half a year, he will become a full member of Willingsmu, But Kim Nam Viet will return to North Korea in half a year, if nothing surprises.
Because the English Youth League belongs to a platform for clubs to cultivate young players, so the restrictions on the rules are not very rigid, Lao Liu made a phone call to the FA that day, these young players have completed the filing of the Youth League, and their fate has been tightly grasped in their hands from this moment......
Guus Hiddink finally took his fate into his own hands as Chelsea played their best game of the year's Champions League with a 4-1 away win over Roma to avenge a home defeat and only need three points in their final game against Sweden's weakest side AEK to emerge from the group.
And what particularly excited Hiddink is that he still arranged a basically similar style of play to the previous games, Ronaldinho finally broke out in the most crucial game, he not only scored a goal himself, but also assisted Kanu and Drogba who came on as a substitute in the second half to complete the goal, and the team's huge investment in the introduction of stars seems to have completed the run-in period, which can't help but make Hiddinkle blossom.
Of course, there were some dissonances in the game, with John Terry and Didier Drogba both barely getting on the pitch, resulting in injuries that could take two weeks to correct, while midfielder Essen also suffered an ankle injury that wasn't very serious, but was unavailable for the game against Willingham three days later.
The absence of the three absolute players will have some impact on Chelsea, but Guus Hiddink is not worried, with no depth on the bench that Mateus can match, with John Terry replaced by Sidwell from Everton, and Mikel Mikel and Paraguayan youngster Abalos replacing Essen and Didier Drogba.
Chelsea's starting line-up was as follows:
Goalkeepers: Petr Cech defenders (left to right): Spaniards Puerta, Carvalho, Sidwell, Johnson; Midfielders (from left to right): Caron, Mikel, Lampard, Joe ColeForwards: Shevchenko, AbalosAmong them, Puerta, who transferred from Spain's Sevilla side last season, has only been snatched from Ashley Cole in recent games, and it is not very realistic to replace England at left wing-back, but the talented Spanish defender has at least received the same level of attention as Hiddink and Cole.
And Abalos was poached by Mourinho from Atlético Argentina two years ago, because he did not have the labor certification qualification, he was arranged to Chelsea's partner club, Belgium's Westerro team played in the Belgian First Division for two years, and the Paraguayan youngster fully seized this opportunity, scoring a total of 38 goals for the Westerro team in two seasons, helping the weak team to succeed in relegation for two consecutive years, and even selected for the newly retired Paredes to coach the De Paraguay national team, In a warm-up match, he also scored against Brazil.
He is considered the best gift Mourinho has ever left for Chelsea during his tenure, and the player, who cost the Portuguese £1 million at the time, is now worth no less than £8 million. Mourinho is also said to have suffered a big loss, because when Abalos moved to Atlético Argentina from Paraguay's Potano Hills two years ago, the Paraguayan only offered Atlético manager Reinaldo £55,000.
Despite coming off the bench, Sidwell and Mikel have been known for a long time, and only Abalos is a newcomer, and this is his first start since returning to Chelsea from Westerro, will he be able to hold on to his fate when it matters most, as he has done before?
(To be continued)