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The Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, located in Cardiff, is the national stadium of Wales and is mainly used for rugby union events as well as the national home stadium for international rugby competitions. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Once the largest stadium in the UK, with a capacity of 74,500 spectators, a retractable roof, and a large stadium with 82,000 seats, it was one of the largest stadiums in the entire island of Great Britain.

Now, England's most famous Wembley Stadium is being renovated, so this magnificent stadium has been used for the FA Cup final and the English League Cup final, which has greatly strengthened the popularity of the Millennium Stadium.

On February 27, the final of the 45th English League Cup was held at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, Wales, against Chelsea and Liverpool.

Yesterday, the whole Chelsea squad arrived in Cardiff, Wales, and Chelsea were very serious about the game, which was the first time in many years that Chelsea could win the title, and even the club's president, Mr Abramovich, was on hand to watch the game and cheer on the players in the dressing room before the game.

The same is true for Liverpool, who have failed to win the league title for many years, leaving the former superclub on the verge of being relegated to a second-rate team, and the whole of Liverpool needs a trophy to give the players more motivation and support the future development of the team.

Before the game, Liverpool had just experienced a 'Gerrard storm'. Gerrard has publicly expressed his displeasure with the team in the media, stressing: "I love Liverpool, but as a professional I also want to win the title, and if Liverpool still can't win it this season, I will consider leaving in the summer." ”

Gerrard's remarks caused a big stir, but no media criticized him, and no fans declared that 'Gerrard is a traitor', they really understand this England iron man who has been deeply marked by Liverpool.

As one of the world's top midfielders, Steven Gerrard has been playing for Liverpool for eight years, and during these eight years, he has been very consistent, but he only won the pseudo-treble of the English Football Cup, English League Cup and UEFA Cup in 00/01, and won the UEFA Super Cup in 01/02 and the English League Cup in 02/03.

None of these overall titles have a league title or a Champions Cup title, which means that all of them have little gold content, which is really difficult for a strong professional to accept. If Liverpool still can't win any weighty titles this season, then Gerrard's choice to leave is understandable.

Immediately after Gerrard's announcement, Mourinho seized the opportunity to contact Gerrard's broker, who said: "If Steven agrees to leave Liverpool, Chelsea will be considered first. ”

This has made Mourinho feel very comfortable recently, and he is looking forward to this final even more, and he is eager to promise Liverpool right away to steal all their titles and put Steven Brown. Steven Gerrard was brought to Stamford Bridge and he is already thinking about how the 'Twin Pairs' should be used on the pitch!!

All of the above has been hyped up by the English media, and it is definitely big news before the start of the League Cup!!

As Chelsea's well-deserved first person, Wang Li also said in an interview with reporters: "When I was in the England team, I played with Steven, he is very strong, if you can be teammates with him, it must be a good feeling, I welcome him." ”

This kind of everything has cast a deeper meaning on the League Cup final, and many media reporters feel that this game may become a stage for Gerrard to show his strength for the new club before Gerrard's transfer, which can make the game more suspenseful and spectacle.

However, there are still few media who think that Liverpool will win, because the gap between the two teams is too big, in addition to the cause of injury, the two teams also have an unbridgeable gap in terms of strength and record, it can be said that the current Liverpool and Chelsea are fundamentally two grade teams.

However, no one could have imagined that the game itself was very exciting.

Liverpool, who were not fancied, took the advantage in the opening period.

After just 45 seconds, central defender Luis Brown. Garcia played the ball to Morientes on the right, and the Spaniard was heavily defended by Chelsea on the flanks while dribbling the ball. Ferreira made a mistake in defense, Gerrard received the ball, turned and volleyed a left-footed volley into the far corner from 10 meters on the left side of the penalty area. There was nothing Cech could do.

1:0！！

In less than 1 minute, Liverpool took the lead.

The goal came so quickly that the fans in the crowd were a little incredulous, and after Liverpool scored, Benitez reacted quickly, he immediately made adjustments, strengthened the team's defence, and began to play defensive counter-attacks.

Benitez's tactics were correct, and Chelsea launched a continuous onslaught of attacks just after Liverpool scored a goal!!

Wang Li played as a right midfielder in this game, as a striker, of course, his main task is to score, but after Benitez made adjustments, Liverpool's morale was greatly boosted, and the right side was the focus of their defense.

Fortunately, Chelsea's efforts were not in vain, and in the 77th minute, in order to get rid of the defenders, Wang Li transferred a wide range from the middle to the bottom line on the right side, and gave his teammates a chance with a loaf.

Gerrard jumped high to try to clear, but his clearance couldn't hit the ball, which made the starting Altyn Brown. Arjen Robben had the chance and the latter volleyed in to equalise for Chelsea.

After that, coach Benitez, who felt that the game was out of control, completely gave up face, and he immediately arranged for his team to defend with all his strength and try to drag the game to extra time. This tactic was successful, and in the face of Liverpool's 11-man full defense, there was no good way to do it even if Wang Li's footwork was outstanding.

However, after the start of extra-time, Wang Li's greater advantage gradually emerged, and in the case of many players unable to run, his physical strength could still support a long-distance run, and in the 106th minute, Wang Li took the ball in the heart of Liverpool near the halfway line, and finally broke the deadlock for Chelsea with a long-range shot, and the score became 2:1.

Just three minutes later, it was still Wang Li who was brought down by a Liverpool player on the edge of the box and Chelsea were awarded a well-placed free-kick.

Wang took a free-kick with his right foot, which was very powerful, but due to the angle of influence of the wall, it still allowed goalkeeper Dudek to save, and Drogba reacted quickly, he followed with a ferocious follow-up shot that went straight into the net.

3:1！！

From 0:1 to 3:1, from the opening lead to the current two goals behind.

Liverpool has gone through a process from joy to hope, from hope to loss, from loss to despair.

At the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, the Blues fans were full of joy, while the Liverpool fans were in despair, and the Welsh local fans who came to watch the game were still biased towards Chelsea, who made Chelsea's results this season too good!?

As a result, the audience still erupted in enthusiastic cheers, as if they were already celebrating the championship.

But that wasn't the final score.

It was absolutely desperate to score two goals in extra time, but the Liverpudlians were desperate for the title and even though the game was short, Steven Gerrard pulled one back with a header in the 113th minute, but it was too late and Chelsea came back to win the game as they wished.

It was a thrilling game that was decided in the second half of extra-time, something that no one could have expected before the game, but in the end Chelsea were able to win the Carabao Cup and Wang Li won his first title.

For Chelsea, it was the 10th title in the club's history and the first since Roman Abramovich and European Champions coach Jose Mourinho took charge of Stamford Bridge.

After the game, Wang Li and his team-mates celebrated the victory, and the whole team was overjoyed, and Mourinho became the protagonist of the team, although his face was still grim as he celebrated, but he was treated heroically by the Blues fans.

However, Jose Mourinho generously stepped forward to comfort the losing Liverpool players before Wang Li won the final again and lifted the silver trophy for Chelsea.

However, this is only an English League Cup, this trophy is somewhat frustrated, Wang Li is not complacent about this, he knows that Chelsea and himself have to chase more titles this season, the journey has only just begun, an English League Cup is really nothing, the league title and the European championship are the most important.

………… Winning the English League Cup was a good start for Chelsea, and it was a good start to the title, albeit a bit of a till.

However, many of England's non-Blues support media began to laugh at Chelsea's continued ridicule of the joy of winning the English League Cup, and a report in English Football even ridiculed Chelsea with the headline 'The Blues are just nouveau riche, only 10 titles in a century'.

In fact, both the English media and fans know very well that the League Cup has now become one of the chicken trophies that the English Premier League team can get, if he is stronger than the Charity Shield and other trophies, it is only to determine a League Cup qualifying qualification, but for top teams such as Chelsea and Manchester United, they can directly enter the Champions Cup with the results in the league, and the qualification for the League Cup is meaningless. At best, it was a warm-up game of relatively high quality, and even though Chelsea put a lot of effort into the competition, the fans didn't see much point in it.

In England, there are still league and trophy titles, and for England fans, the most historic trophy is the FA Cup.

As for the English League Cup, it can only be a lottery, for example, after Chelsea won the league title and the Champions Cup, the media can tout that 'the Blues have built a treble', and then the League Cup is said as an addition, and if Chelsea have only won one League Cup this season, then the media will naturally ignore the title and say bluntly 'it has been a fruitless season, Chelsea have failed very much'.

That's what the English League Cup really means.

Not only that, after Chelsea showed a non-refuting attitude, many media focused on the process of the game, they believed that Chelsea did not win the victory, but only won the championship with good luck, and it was like a dream to win the 'quadruple crown' with this strength!!

Wang Li's performance has also been stigmatized by many media, because he did not score in the first 90 minutes, the "Guardian" even directly said that 'Allen's courage has come to an end, and the super performance is about to return to the mean'.

As for the game, Liverpool's heroic performance in defense ???

They don't pay attention.

"As you can see from this game, Chelsea's performance is becoming less and less satisfactory after the halfway point of the league game, although they won the final title, but the whole process was very thrilling, maybe they can win against Liverpool, more just luck. And the teenager Allen. Wang De's performance was not good, and the attack in 106 minutes was not enough to prove his strength. —From the report of The Guardian.

In the front, when the media ridiculed Chelsea as an upstart, there was a reason, Chelsea did not have any official statement, and the head coach Mourinho wanted to use this as a motivation for the players to strive for more victories, as an upstart, beating the giants to fight for more titles, isn't it a legendary great football road!?

But then the media began to satirize the game process, and the baseless indiscriminate attack directly annoyed Mourinho!!

As the head coach of Chelsea, Mourinho's temper is not very good, although it is a fact that there are few titles in Chelsea's history, but Mourinho hopes to win more trophies this season, he hopes to use the League Cup to boost the morale of the players, and use the media criticism as a motivation to fight for the title. However, now those media have brought the topic to the tournament itself, which makes him unacceptable.

Either way, Chelsea's performance is definitely not bad!!

Throughout the title, the team defeated Newcastle in the middle of the Premier League, and Manchester United, a Premier League giant, and finally won the title with Liverpool. But in terms of the game itself, it was still very good and the players performed very well.

It's okay to be sarcastic about trophies, but it's not acceptable to be sarcastic about Chelsea's quality.

The happy mood of winning a championship was stirred up by the English media, which made the whole Chelsea team feel a sense of grievance and anger!!

How can you swallow this breath???

As it turned out, Chelsea were by no means soft persimmons and the Portuguese were anything but to be trifled with, and in the afternoon of the same day, Chelsea Football issued an official statement stating that it 'refused to be interviewed by 12 media outlets: The Guardian, Manchester Newspaper, English Football ......'.

'We have limited quality, we can't play a good game, it's surprising enough to win a League Cup, we can only say that our eyes are still at the stage of 'nouveau riche', so those media reporters who look down on the League Cup trophy and look down on Chelsea's performance will not welcome you in the future. In an exclusive interview with The Sun, Chelsea Football Club CEO Peter Brown. Kenyan said bluntly.

One stone startles a thousand waves!!

As soon as this official statement was issued, it was met with strong resistance from the media, and in addition to the media who fully supported Chelsea, even the neutral media began to oppose it, in their opinion, Chelsea's move was an act of declaring war on the English media!!

Even The Times said: "This is wrong, modern football is inseparable from the press, and blatantly refusing to be interviewed by numerous media outlets would put Chelsea in a cycle where their players will not be famous and the club will not make money......

Wait a minute.

However, fans in London found the report boring.

For Chelsea, as long as they win more than three titles this season, all the English media refuse to report it!? - They're all known too!!

As for the players will not be famous!? - Chelsea are not small clubs, they don't buy and sell players to survive, and all the players in the first team were famous before they joined Chelsea.

The club won't make money!? ――Can you expect a club that loses more than 80 million euros a year to make money!? Arabian Nights Talk!!

In short, the reasons given by these media are completely invalid for Chelsea, and in this case, Mourinho's extraordinary courage has sparked a discussion war within the English media in the blink of an eye, but while these journalists are still in the process of discussion, in addition to the pure 'anti-Chelsea' faction like the Guardian who are constantly trying to pull allies, those media with the right to interview, while nodding, also ran to Chelsea, blocking the club gate waiting to find an interview target

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(To be continued)