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With a win over Middlesbrough in the 22nd round of the league, Chelsea continued their run in the Premier League. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

However, for Chelsea, the team's injury problems are getting worse, and after the game against Middlesbrough, an inexplicable flu has left Frank Brown. Frank Lampard, Damien. Duff and the others were easily defeated, but fortunately, although Wang Li had not yet reached the realm of cold and heat, this minor illness could no longer invade his body, so he was spared a depression.

This was indeed a heavy blow to Chelsea, who were short of major generals, if it were not for captain John Brown. With the timely recovery of the likes of John Terry and Smelting, there is a possibility that the team may not even be able to make up their 16-man squad for the FA Cup tie on January 8, so they will have to go to the reserves.

As for the youth team!?

Head coach Jose. Jose Mourinho never goes there and maybe it was a mistake for these youngsters to come to Chelsea.

This is not the only bad news for Jose Mourinho, the other is news from La Liga, Chelsea and Real Betis in the winter transfer to Joaquin. Sanchez. Rodriguez's negotiations failed. While Chelsea are offering a good price, Real Betis are facing a local derby and it would be unwise to sell their key players before the game.

In this case, Mourinho can only look in other directions.

Jerry. Jarosik, the original Nedved partner, has caught the eyes of the Portuguese.

The 27-year-old, who plays as a central midfielder for CSKA Moscow, will ease the holes in midfield caused by injuries such as Frank Lampard and give Mourinho an additional international. In the last two seasons, Jarosik has scored 12 goals in 55 appearances for CSKA and 20 appearances for the Czech national team, having played alongside the likes of Nedved and **ski in European Championship qualifiers.

'I'm delighted, it's the biggest opportunity of my career,' Jarosik said after arriving in London, 'I met with manager Jose Mourinho and what he said to me gave me confidence and ambition. For Jarosik, Mourinho had a certain impression earlier, when he was in charge of Porto, the two had a "friendship".

'Mourinho has known Jerry for a long time,' said Jarosik's agent Coolal, 'when he scored a goal against Porto and Mourinho has remembered him since then. ”

Although Chelsea's assistant coach Clarke did not confirm the signing of Jarosic after the Middlesbrough game, it is not difficult to conclude from his words that the probability of Jarosik becoming a Chelsea man has reached 99 per cent.

'There's no definite news yet, we're focused on the game, we don't know he's in the stands, if we think we can help the team in the short term, then we're going to bring him in, but we haven't signed him yet.'

In the negotiations, CSKA Moscow wanted Jarosik to join Chelsea on loan, but Chelsea wanted to bring in the player on a permanent basis, and CSKA did not agree, and in the end the two sides reached an agreement on loan, and now as long as Jarosik passes the next day's medical examination, he will be Chelsea's first new signing in the winter transfer market.

However, the most important thing for Jarosik now is to gain the approval of his teammates.

Now there are two big names in the Chelsea dressing room - John Chelsea. John Terry and Wang Li, one is the captain of the team, the other is the best performer, Chelsea's pillar stars, in this regard, Chelsea's 'England Gang' is undoubtedly strong, Lampard, Terry, Wang Li, these four people are obviously the representatives of the 'England Gang'.

"He's good, at least for now."

In an interview, Wang Li commented on the new player, although he is also a newcomer, but in the current Chelsea, his voice is unquestionable: "He has a good attitude, Chelsea need unity in the dressing room, we will accept him." ”

Undoubtedly, since everyone puts Wang Li in the position of 'boss', his tone of voice is different now, in fact, he enjoys this 'boss' level status, at least many players will be 'obedient'.

'I'm sure his arrival will add a boost to Chelsea.' Finally, Wang Li concluded.

………… The Football Association Challenge Cup, abbreviated as the FACUP, is a men's knockout football cup named and hosted by the English Football Association. The tournament is the oldest football competition in the world and is a one-on-one knockout competition between football clubs of all levels in England.

There are no seeded teams in the rules for the FA Cup, so the match-ups and home-and-away games are determined entirely by the draw. In the event of a draw, the two sides exchange home and away replays, and if there is a draw again, extra-time and penalty shootouts are played, and for this reason, in the FA Cup, there are often upsets in which the lower clubs knock out the higher clubs, but even so, due to the ancient significance of the season, in the eyes of English fans, the FA Cup title is even equated with the Premier League title.

Every year in August, all non-league clubs with basic facilities begin to play in the preliminaries, and this year's FA Cup is even more unusual for previous years, with a total of 660 clubs competing in the FA Cup this season, breaking the previous record of 656 teams in the 1921/22 season.

The teams in the Premier League and the Championship are eligible to skip some rounds of the FA Cup directly, and the teams at these two levels can directly and unconditionally enter the round of 64 of the FA Cup, which means that the teams in the Premier League can directly enter the high-level knockout rounds.

Although this season is historical, it is clear that this alone will not attract more Premier League teams to play hard, because no matter how significant the title is, there is not much practical value, and the reason why the FA Cup still attracts many teams to go all out is that the team that wins the FA Cup can qualify for the first round of the UEFA Cup the following year.

Of course, there are special circumstances, such as if the team qualifies for the UEFA Champions League because of their league position, the FA Cup runners-up will replace the champions to qualify for the UEFA Cup, and if the runners-up also qualify for the UEFA Champions League, then this UEFA Cup place will be given to the other team according to the English Premier League ranking.

On January 8, after eliminating most of the teams in the first half of the season, the FA Cup finally ushered in the main event, which is a brutal knockout match for Premier League and Championship teams.

Chelsea's luck was good, as the draw decided that the knockout round would be played at Stamford Bridge against a League One side Scunthorpe who had fought their way to the last 64 of the league.

Scunthorpe is a small city in the United Kingdom, located in the northeast of England, administratively belonging to North Lincolnshire, with a population of about 60,000 people, known as Lincolnshire's Industrial Gardentown, and neighboring cities such as Hull, York, Doncaster and Sheffield.

Scunthorpe United Football Club is the only team on record in the city, and this year may be a happy year for Scunthorpe fans as they win the second division and thus win promotion to the first division for the first time in history.

Although this team is not well-known, Scunthorpe has trained many famous players over the years, including Kevin. Keegan, Ray. Clemens (Rayclemence) and even cricket superstar Ian Brown. Ianbotham also came out of the academy of this small club.

As a slowly developing First Division team, Scunthorpe's financial situation is also as stretched as many First Division teams, and compared to the teams in the English First Division, as a promoted horse, they have indeed performed very well this season, but, no matter how hard they fight, Scunthorpe is a League One team, in the eyes of the media and fans, this team's luck is really bad, and finally reached the round of 64, the first opponent is Chelsea in the Premier League, They hardly had any hope of victory.

Even the Chelsea players felt the same way, and on the day of the game, Jose Mourinho didn't even send any key players, which allowed the substitutes, who were usually difficult to play, finally got their chance, even if the opponents were too far apart.

However, from the Scunthorpe club's point of view, they are really lucky to be home!!

As an English One team, it is not easy to reach the round of 64 of the FA Cup, first of all, the Premier League and Championship teams have occupied 44 places, and the remaining 20 places are to be eliminated among the 24 League One teams and the remaining hundreds of lower league teams, due to the uncertainty of the FA Cup, almost every year to enter the round of 64 League One teams do not exceed 10 places, as a promotion horse in the English League, Scunthorpe has done very well.

And now, they are 'very lucky' to face Chelsea.

Maybe the media will gloat, but even if they don't meet Chelsea, they will be eliminated if they meet a normal Premier League or even the Championship team, so what difference does it make if they encounter any team!?

The actual benefit of meeting Chelsea for Scunthorpe is £sterling income.

At Stamford Bridge, just a share of ticket revenue and TV broadcast fees can bring Scunthorpe at least £500,000, and before this game, the deep-pocketed Chelsea promised that all the money from the game would be owned by Scunthorpe, which is also a kind of 'charity' way to support the lower league teams in England.

All that adds up, Scunthorpe would have earned at least £1 million, which may seem like a drop in the bucket for Chelsea, but it's a lot of money for a League One team, enough to buy several players to play in League One.

At 2:30 p.m. on 8 January, the FA Cup round of 64 knockout rounds were played in 32 stadiums at the same time, and there were plenty of fans at Stamford Bridge.

As an almost warm-up game, Mourinho was reluctant to send the main lineup, which was simply a knife killing.

After the opening, the live commentator Creed. Peswack has announced his starting line-up: goalkeeper Thomas. Clark, guard from left to right. Johnson, Watt, Morais, Smertin, midfielder Joe. Cole, Geremi, Thiago. Mendes, Scott. Parker, forward Eduar. Goodjanssen, Didier. Drogba.

The almost all-substitution line-up was a huge disappointment for the Blues fans who came to the scene, but they also understood the team's approach, and the only player on the bench was Paul. Ferreira and Altyn. Robben is the main player.

Wang Li did not appear in the squad at all, as Chelsea's ace, Mourinho was reluctant to let him play in this kind of game.

In fact, the flow of the game proved that even Chelsea's all-substitute squad was much, much higher than that of League One.

In the eighth minute of the game, Scunthorpe's Sparlowway passed the ball to Hayes in the penalty area, who turned beautifully to get rid of Smerking and fired a low right-footed shot into the net, which was the first attack of the game for Scunthorpe, and after this goal, the Blues fans were stunned, they did not expect that this inconspicuous opponent could actually break the Chelsea goal in the first attack.

However, Chelsea's performances have not disappointed them.

In the 15th minute, Chelsea launched an attack in the middle, and Gudjanssen broke away from the opposition defense and fired a low shot, but the ball was saved by the goalkeeper's hands.

Just three minutes later, Drogba received a pass from Goodjanssen and crossed again on the left side of the six-yard box. Cole equalised with a right-footed volley from 15 yards out.

In the 28th minute, opposing striker Clausby received a corner kick, and his header was beautifully saved by Thomas, and then Butler received a corner kick and hit the goal strongly, and the football was slightly off the post.

Subsequently, although both teams worked hard, neither team scored again, and the score of the two sides was fixed at 1-1 in the first half, and it entered the halftime break.

Playing like this with an English One team for 45 minutes really failed to show the strength of the England dominant team this season, and it can also be seen that Chelsea's strength is sluggish after the absence of Wang Li.

In the second half, the two sides changed venues and fought again, and in the 50th minute, Gudjanssen won a free kick from outside the edge of the penalty area, and the Icelander took the penalty himself, and after the ball hit the wall and deflected, it grazed the crossbar and flew out of the bottom line.

In the 55th minute, a Chelsea corner kick was taken. After Cole's penalty, Drogba headed in the box to hit the goal, but the ball was just wide of the goal.

In the 58th minute, the media called Portugal's 'first parallel import' Thiago. Mendes played a long pass to Drogba on the left, who was quick to get away from Brney's cross, and Scunthorpe's Crosby kicked himself an own goal when he cleared Drogba's pass, allowing goalkeeper Msselwhite to score for the second time.

Chelsea finally came back 2-1.

In the 68th minute, Mourinho announced a substitution, replacing Drogba with the latest striker Jarosik in the winter transfer, which was the first appearance in England since his transfer and the first appearance at Stamford Bridge.

In the 72nd minute, Taylor's cross from the edge of the six-yard box was headed by an unguarded Hayes that was saved by Thomas with one hand.

In the 85th minute, substitute Robben received a wonderful pass from Walter and hit the goal 20 meters from the goal, which was blocked by Mselwhite. Cole was saved again and Gudjanssen fired from close range in the box, sending the ball straight into the net.

Chelsea beat Scunthorpe 3-1 at home to progress to the next round of the FA Cup.

Both sides were happy with the result, but for Mourinho it was just training and he needed to keep Chelsea's substitutes in shape. Scunthorpe, on the other hand, have won a lot of pounds and they will not be short of the necessary transfer funds to play in League One at the end of the season.

'There's not much to say about the game itself, our players showed their level and I'm happy to see that.' At the post-match press conference, Jose. Mourinho faced the interview with reporters and said expressionlessly: "Scunthorpe's performance is also very good, the opponent can score first in the opening game, which surprised me, so I think there must be some problems at the back, but the opponent's performance in attack is also undoubted. ”

Affirmed by the head coach of the world's top team, Jose Mourinho, the manager of Scunthorpe is also very happy, in this case, he will not be stingy with his own language, in the face of the interview media, he praised the strength of Chelsea's players, and emphasized that 'the gap between us cannot be calculated' and so on, in short, this young manager is almost about to become a 'sycophant', and Mourinho laughed when he heard it.

It's a win-win for both teams, which is a really good result.

However, there is no time for Mourinho and Chelsea to relive this game because the dense and terrifying field is just around the corner!!

On January 13, the League Cup was played at home against Manchester United.

On January 15, in the 23rd round of the league, we challenged Tottenham Hotspur away.

For Chelsea, who have vowed to win the 'Quadruple', there must be no failure against Manchester United, and for the players, the number 15 league game is also very important, because it is about the big prize money they receive - for Chelsea now, the league is just a way to get the prize money, because the trophy is almost booked.

(To be continued)