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As soon as the Chelsea squad walked out of Ixtabbul, they were greeted by a large group of journalists waiting there. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

The journalists had arrived in Istanbul a few days earlier, and their purpose was to interview the mood of the local fans, the environment of the Champions League final, the progress of the tournament at any time, and so on.

In the eyes of many players, the Champions League final is a game that is on par with the World Cup final, although in the hearts of fans, the two are probably a little worse, but there are many stars, their countries do not have the opportunity to participate in the World Cup, even if they enter the World Cup, they do not have the strength to achieve good results, and the Champions League final is the highest level of competition they can participate in.

From this point of view, the gold content of the Champions League final is indeed very high, in fact, it is not easy to fight your way out of the encirclement among many football giants and reach the final, just like the famous Barcelona, who have only won the European championship twice so far.

It can be seen how difficult it is to win the Champions League trophy, which is the highest honor for European football clubs.

However, many media did not have a high evaluation of this game, because they felt that the outcome of the game was not in suspense, and Chelsea would definitely be the winner, so when the whole Chelsea team rushed from the airport to the hotel, 80% of the reporters present followed, and only a small part of the reporters who stayed at the airport to wait for Liverpool were also seen, and it can be seen from here that the gap between the two teams in the hearts of reporters is really not small.

In the imagination of many players, Turkish fans should be very violent, and the fans here are definitely not cute at all.

However, when the whole Chelsea squad got on a temporary rented bus and rushed from the airport to the hotel, it was surprising to see a lot of local Istanbul fans standing on both sides of the road, many of them holding signs with similar slogans such as 'Welcome' and 'Come on' to welcome the arrival of both teams.

It's nothing, though, isn't it?

For Turkish fans, both teams are England teams, they don't have any inclination to play at all, and even if they buy tickets, they just enter the stadium to watch a high-level match that they don't usually see.

In the absence of a game penance, Turkish fans are just as fond of stars as their counterparts in other countries, and there is no reason why they should not welcome so many of the world's most prestigious players in the Chelsea squad, and the opportunity for these players to come to Istanbul is really rare.

However, compared to Chelsea, Liverpool have been treated a little worse.

By the time the whole Liverpool squad walked out of the airport, most of the reporters had already rushed to the hotel where Chelsea was staying to see if they could have a chance to interview one or two players, which made the crowd of reporters who greeted Liverpool at the airport very small, just over 100.

You know, this is the final of the Champions League, more than 100 journalists, it's really nothing.

Chelsea had already won the FA Cup, the English League Cup and the Premier League before this final, and they were already a minor treble-winner, with a win to secure a quadruple. Compared with Chelsea, Liverpool has no results, and even in the league, they have played fifth, which has doomed them to only go to the League Cup next season. Under these circumstances, how can these journalists be optimistic about them? In either case, Chelsea will win the title cleanly!

Although they are prepared, seeing this scene, the mood of the Liverpool players is not very good, some people feel that the can is broken, and everyone doesn't care about the reaction, so it doesn't matter if they lose the game, and some people feel that they should perform better and let the team win, and slap these media in the face.

"Well, listen to me, I think we should take the game seriously and try to win and get the trophy, and those people think we're going to lose, and if we win, think about their faces, it's going to be funny."

On the bus, the atmosphere of the Liverpool team was not very good, most of the players were all calm, seeing this situation, Gerrard immediately stood up and took the initiative to explain: "The coach has long said that they are very good, but we are not bad, this is Istanbul, not at Stamford Bridge, we have no reason to be nervous." We should try hard, and if we don't try, how do we know that we will lose? ”

"Steven is right! We should try it. "Jamie. Carragher snorted coldly and stood up as well.

Although the words of these two people did not have a big impact on the players, but at least they made them feel better, after arriving at the hotel, the first thing the Liverpool players had to do was to adapt to the venue, it was better to adapt to the venue than to visit, although it was almost night, but Benitez still asked the players to enter Kemal. Take a walk around the Ataturk Stadium and get a feel for it in advance, so they can get into training the next day.

On the other hand, the Chelsea players gathered in a room to chat after cleaning up their rooms, waiting for the arrival of manager Jose Mourinho, not that they didn't want to do something, but that there were hundreds of reporters blocked at the door of the hotel.

It didn't take long for Mourinho to come to this room to give them a brief tactical coaching session after sending some influential media reporters, in fact, he was already familiar with the Liverpool team, Chelsea up and down, and when he was at Chelsea Club, Mourinho didn't say much, he could only let the players train seriously and take the game seriously.

However, if you talk more, you will always deepen the impression, but this time Mourinho has a lot of information in his hand, and he distributed it to each player, so that they can spend tonight to read it carefully, analyze it carefully, and remember everything that is told in it.

The information seems to be a lot, but in fact, there is not much content, Wang Li took a cursory look, it is just a specific introduction to Liverpool's players.

In this information, it is basically a detailed analysis of each player in Liverpool, including a series of entries such as 'what you are good at', 'how to play', 'what you often do', 'specific position of running', etc., although this information does not seem to be much, but it is definitely a large group of people who have watched a lot of game videos before they come to a conclusion.

It's the result of the coaching staff's hard work and they've prepared to win this game......

What the Chelsea players need to do is memorize the player profile of the player who is opposite them, and there aren't really many, but everyone can remember three or four on average, which will be very helpful in the last game.

'I don't want to see any accidents happen and I don't want to see any player who doesn't take the game seriously, and if any of you don't do that before you get the trophy, then just go off the pitch and I think everybody wants to play in the final of the European Cup.'

Mourinho's tone is not harsh, but the meaning in it touches the hearts of every player.

Although everyone came with the team to participate in the game, there were only 11 places on the field, and who wouldn't want to play in such an important game? If you don't compete, and you get a medal in the Champions League, it's definitely not perfect, and no one wants that.

It would be even more humiliating if you were substituted in the middle of the game!!

Even if the team wins, I'm afraid the media and fans think that it has nothing to do with you, after all, since you were replaced by the manager, it means that the performance is not very good, and if the team loses, you are likely to become a sinner for Chelsea, think about it, when the Blues fans recall the 04-05 season, Chelsea's Champions League final, they think 'it's all because of xxx, otherwise we would have won the trophy!' No one wants to make xxx their own name.

"We have to attack from both wings at the right time, with fast attacks on both wings, and turn to the middle to look for shooting opportunities. The opponent's attack is mostly from the middle, and when defending, the focus is still on the middle, and the fullbacks should also pay more attention to the defense."

Chelsea players have heard these tactics once before, but Mourinho still got tired of telling them again, this is the best tactic after discussion with the team's coaching staff, Mourinho also thinks this tactic is very good, at least to maximize Chelsea's advantages.

However, even though the players have memorized this tactic, they still listen very carefully, this game is the last game of the season, and it is also the most important game, no one is a fool, they don't want to work hard for a season, and finally drop the chain and hand over the championship.

Just a few more days of hard work and full play, and as soon as the 90 minutes are over, they can relax, and that's when it's time to relax and celebrate.

The next morning, the two teams went to Ataturk to do training to adapt to the venue, the stadium looks big, the management of the stadium is obviously very business-minded, today, the Ataturk Stadium actually sells tickets to the public, and the effect is not bad, many local fans want to go to the stadium to see the two teams training.

At ten o'clock in the morning, the stadium that can accommodate more than 80,000 fans has already sparsely stood a lot of fans, and now is not the regular game time, so many fans are standing directly next to the fence of the stadium, constantly waving to the players in the stadium, and constantly shouting in the local dialect, whenever there are players who have a good performance, they still have a purpose to cheer loudly.

In this case, the effect of the training of the two teams can be imagined, and the players have protested to the stadium management, but that will not have any effect at all, after all, this is in Turkey, not England.

In fact, the team's assistant coach Clark also thinks that training in such an environment will make the players play better during the game, after all, there were 80,000 fans in the stands around the game, and now there are only a few thousand fans scattered around.

Among these players, the least affected is Wang Li, he is the most 'violent', but the training does not seem to be affected at all, it should be said that his training has been 'playing', and when the rise of 'play', he also performed a fancy shot, which attracted more fans around him to marvel and cheer.

Although Wang Li has only been at Chelsea for a year, he has already made a name for himself in the team, and these Turkish fans know him more than Frank Lampard and John Terry, and many of them know him from the pre-match Europa League publicity for the game.

After the two teams in the Champions League final came out, UEFA and the local media in Istanbul made crazy publicity about the game, even if some Turkish fans will not go to see foreign leagues at all, but they also know that these two teams are about to face off in Istanbul.

Among them, the promotion of Chelsea is 'concise and to the point', and many advertising stickers are a picture of Wang Li's barb shot, which shows the style of domineering football, attracting many Turkish fans and becoming interested in the game. It can be said that after such an advertisement, it is impossible for Wang Li to cover his face so that people don't know him, as for the other Chelsea players, except for those fans who like to watch the Premier League, they can recognize one or two, but the other fans can't name them at all.

Fortunately, the staff of the stadium seemed to be very good at judging the situation, and after seeing this situation, in order to attract more fans to buy tickets, he directly opened the big screen of the stadium and began to introduce the main players of the two teams one by one, which greatly satisfied the fans' curiosity and also embarrassed the players of the two teams in training.

So, the first day of training ended in such a scene, most of the players of the two teams walked out of the stadium with helpless faces, and a few players who were ignored by the stadium staff because they usually couldn't play and had no performance records, but they were secretly glad that they didn't appear on camera.

It's definitely embarrassing to be watched on the big screen before you can do anything.

That night, Chelsea held a press conference with a temporary surname, which was held in the lobby on the first floor of the hotel, and when Wang Li and Frank Lampard walked down from the upper floor, the hall was already crowded with more than 100 reporters, which was obviously not all, and there were many reporters at the entrance of the hotel who were frantically taking pictures through the glass, but they were not allowed to enter due to limited space.

Such a temporary press briefing is usually for the team's press officer to announce some of the team's recent situation, which is generally of no special significance, so Mourinho did not attend, and it was just Frank Lampard and Wang Li who met with reporters on behalf of Chelsea to answer a few questions. The journalist of Istanbul Church Newspaper, the leader of the Turkish press, first asked: "Mr. Allen, can you tell us what you think about this game?" ”

Wang said: "I don't have any special opinions, Chelsea and Liverpool are already familiar with each other, what we have to do is to play a good game with a normal heart and play it as if it were a normal league game, not a final, so that we can give the fans a good game. ”

'Do you think Liverpool will be Chelsea's opponents?' After that, a reporter from The Sun asked.

Wang Li smiled and said: "I think our strength is stronger, but anything can happen in a football game, so we have to take the game seriously and make the accidents of the game as few as possible, so that we can successfully get the championship trophy." ”

'So what are Chelsea's goals?' Wang Li smiled, and then said confidently: "We only have one goal, and that is to defeat them and win the championship trophy." ”

Even in the general league, it seems a little impolite to say this kind of thing, and the media will think that this is a performance of boasting and not taking the opponent in the eyes at all, but for this game, this was said by Wang Li, and the effect is completely different.

At the press conference, it was followed by 'Chelsea will definitely win the title', 'They are no opponent at all', 'How many goals are you aiming to win?' and a series of touting and questioning words, which made Wang Li himself feel blushing.

Unlike Chelsea's press conference, which was buzzy and unanimous, Liverpool's press conference was full of 'bumps'.

Most of the journalists' questions revolve around the motto of 'how many goals are you going to lose', they don't believe Liverpool have a chance to win, the gap between the two teams is too big, if this is not the Champions League final, I'm afraid these reporters won't come to cover Liverpool.

Seeing this situation, Gerrard, who followed the manager to the press conference, smiled wryly, although he also knew that the team's chances of winning were not very good, but when others said it, the feeling in his heart was completely different.

The team has reached the final of the Champions League and anyone will want to win it, even against the mighty Chelsea. And the reporters in the room didn't understand this at all, they just kept talking about related questions such as 'are you going to be stressed', which made Gerrard extremely uncomfortable.

On the other hand, however, he is also glad that, judging by the performance of the journalists, Chelsea may well have made the mistake of underestimating their opponents, knowing that there is a big gap between the two teams, and only if the opponent makes a mistake will they have a better chance of winning.

So, in the face of reporters' questions, Steven, who has always been known for his perseverance. Gerrard actually put on a sincere face of 'it is', which made the media's goal of angering Liverpool to get big news not succeed, but made them feel that Liverpool really had no hope of winning - even the pillars of the team lost confidence in the game, so how can this game be played?

(To be continued)