Chapter 422: A Gift for the Blues Fans
But before Mourinho leaves, he still needs to lead the team to a few more games.
The upcoming FA Cup final with Liverpool is the game, and many fans have not reacted to this game, "Is there still a game between Chelsea and Liverpool?" As many people know, everyone's attention is focused on the league title race and the Champions League, and not many people pay attention to the FA Cup situation.
But all in all, the FA Cup is a very meaningful cup competition in England.
Many England fans believe that this oldest competition is more important than the league title, so when they know that Chelsea and Liverpool are going to play the FA Cup semi-finals, many eyes are on them.
One is because of the event, and the other is because of the warring parties.
Chelsea and Liverpool, the two teams are undoubtedly England's team of the year this season, the top three in the Premier League were Chelsea, Manchester United, and Arsenal, but this season Manchester United withdrew from the Champions League early, and the league table was medie, and Arsenal's results in the league were even worse, and even fell to eighth in the league in the first dozen rounds, so that Manchester United and Arsenal received less attention.
Chelsea and Liverpool are different.
Chelsea, who were champions last season, have been top of the league table from the beginning to the end, and they have a striking title coach that has brought more attention to Chelsea; Liverpool, for their part, have a good table in the league and the Champions League, and now they are also in the last four of the Champions League, competing with AC Milan for a place in the final.
In terms of the league, Liverpool also has a good table, and it can even be compared with Chelsea at the beginning of the season, but the table is not good in the middle, but when Zhang Tiehan returns, their table is rapid again.
The two teams play the FA Cup semi-finals. It has attracted the attention of many fans.
However, before the game, the English media analysis believes that Liverpool will not send all the main players to play, after all, they will welcome AC Milan at Anfield Stadium four days later, if the state of the team is affected because of the big game, it will be more than worth the loss.
What's more, the game was played at Stamford Bridge. Even if Liverpool try their best, it will not be easy to beat Chelsea.
The media is unanimously unanimous in their disapproval of Liverpool.
Even Liverpool fans didn't say anything, they knew the situation of the team and felt that it was not a good choice to affect the Champions League for the FA Cup, and it was almost impossible to do both.
But in the end, Benitez announced that the names of Zhang Tiehan and Gerrard still included the names of Zhang Tiehan and Gerrard.
Other players, including Reese and Garcia, are not on the list, but Zhang Tiehan and Gerrard are named. Tell everyone that Liverpool didn't give up on this game, they still want to fight hard.
This also made the fans who came to watch the game feel a lot of relief.
After all, no fan would want to see themselves buy a ticket, and as a result, the side of the game was on the bench, and as long as Zhang Tiehan and Gerrard played, they could almost represent Liverpool's main lineup.
Chelsea, on the other hand, were the main players.
They have only just won the league and the FA Cup is the only game they can still fight for, so they will definitely give it their all.
There was still a lot of talk about the two teams before the game.
It's not just the contradictions of these seasons. The biggest topic is still Zhang Tiehan and Mourinho, even if there is no accurate information in the media. But they also know that Mourinho's departure must have something to do with Zhang Tiehan, Abramovich has always admired Zhang Tiehan, and Mourinho is the biggest reason why Zhang Tiehan is now in Liverpool and not at Chelsea.
Blues fans have come to terms with that fact.
In fact, they are also conflicted in their hearts, and it is almost a certainty that Zhang Tiehan will come to Stamford Bridge in the summer. But Mourinho will also leave, they don't know whether to rejoice or be sad, but they still welcome Zhang Tiehan's arrival.
Who doesn't welcome a world-class efficient striker and goalscorer?
Zhang Tiehan is different from players like Crespo and Drogba, and the strength he is showing now. and the frighteningly high price of the squad to show Blues fans that his arrival will be a huge boost to the squad as a player at the top of the world.
So when the players of both teams started the game, there were Blues fans holding up signs that read 'Welcome to Stamford Bridge'.
This has two meanings.
One can be understood as welcoming Zhang Tiehan to Stamford Bridge to play, of course, no one will understand that the Blues will welcome Zhang Tiehan to Stamford Bridge as an opponent? No kidding, they wish Liverpool didn't send Zhang Tiehan on the game, then their chances of winning would be much higher.
The second meaning is to welcome Zhang Tiehan to Chelsea.
Zhang Tiehan was also a little embarrassed to see that kind of slogan, after all, he is still a member of Liverpool, when he walked to the sidelines, many Blues fans greeted him, and he also got a lot of cheers, he felt the enthusiasm of the Blues fans, and at the same time he was very happy.
After all, if you're going to Chelsea in the summer and the fans here welcome you, that's good.
So...... Give the Blues fans a big gift!
Zhang Tiehan thought.
While thinking like this, he waved to the Blues fans, as if he was now a member of the Blues, and at the same time attracted more crazy cheers from the Blues fans, seeing this scene, many Liverpool fans were very dissatisfied, even the Liverpool teammates looked at Zhang Tiehan with strange eyes, and the expressions of the Chelsea players opposite were also very strange, after all, Zhang Tiehan is now stepping on the Stamford Bridge stadium as a Liverpool player.
Benitez frowned as well.
Mourinho was on the sidelines, watching Zhang Tiehan's movements and thinking, and he didn't know what he was thinking about.
And so the game began.
Everyone doesn't know what Zhang Tiehan is thinking, and some Chelsea players even think that Zhang Tiehan is currying favor with the Blues fans, so this game will not be played much, right?
But apparently they were wrong.
At the beginning of the game, Zhang Tiehan was very active, quite active, he kept running in the Chelsea half, when their defense was at a loss, the game had just begun, and there were still many players who had not yet entered the state, but Zhang Tiehan was already running.
Yes, run!
Here's what the live commentator said, "Look! Zhang has been running! He's really active, maybe because he's been welcomed by the Blues fans before, he's in a good mood, and then his table is even better......"
I don't know if Chelsea fans should be happy or sad to hear this.
Before they could react, Zhang Tiehan's appearance had already complicated their feelings - in the fifteenth minute, taking advantage of a set-piece opportunity, Zhang Tiehan received Gerrard's over-the-top pass and knocked on the Chelsea door with a header.
1 to 0!
Zhang Tiehan hugged Gerald very happily, and then ran to the audience that welcomed him just now, and shouted, "Are you happy about this gift?" ”
Chelsea fans...... Silent.
The Chelsea players and the Liverpool players seemed to understand something, they just thought that Zhang Tiehan would be 'waterproof', but when they saw this scene, their faces were very weird, and many players thought 'I really can't keep up with this guy's train of thought'.
"Zhang! He knocked on the Chelsea door with the top of his head to make it 1-0! ”
'He ran to the Chelsea fans' stand......
'He seemed to be shouting something, and the Chelsea fans didn't welcome or scold...... They all seem to have mixed looks, yes, forgive me for using that word to describe the demeanor of the fans......"
All right.
The commentator, who didn't hear Zhang Tiehan shout anything, could only tell the story in the form of speculation, and in the face of Zhang Tiehan's shout of 'gift', the feelings of Chelsea fans were really complicated.
Gifts? That's how it was delivered?
Isn't it supposed to be a kick into the Liverpool fans to make them happier, so that's a gift?
If it weren't for Zhang Tiehan joining Chelsea in the summer, I'm afraid the Blues fans would have been hurting by now, Nima...... It's so arrogant to score a goal, and now, they don't know whether to thank this gift or scold and fight back.
Chelsea fans have mixed feelings.
Fortunately, Liverpool's next table was not too good, and in the 38th minute of the game, Frank Lampard used a set-piece to volley the ball directly into the net and return the color to Liverpool.
Chelsea fans can celebrate.
In the second half, the two teams changed sides and the midfield battle began again, at this time Zhang Tiehan was at the front of the team, ready to look for an opportunity to give the Blues fans another gift, but Chelsea's strength was indeed strong, and finally in the 77th minute of the game, he found the next opportunity.
It was a corner.
Zhang Tiehan was tightly defended by Terry, but Zhang Tiehan already knew Terry very well, the moment the football flew over, he jumped up against Terry, and then swung his head to attack the goal, Terry's interference with him was still very effective, this ball Zhang Tiehan failed to push in directly, and the football hit the post and bounced out.
The restricted area is in chaos.
In the chaos, Gerrard's volley was blocked by the body of the Chelsea player, and then Zhang Tiehan ran to the outside of the penalty area to get the ball, carried Essien's defense, and turned around with a powerful volley!
The shot was quite sudden, and it was quite fast!
Chelsea goalkeeper Petr Cech was completely unresponsive and could only watch as the ball flew into the net from the right.
Liverpool took the lead again.
Zhang Tiehan, who scored again, happily hugged Essien in front of him, only to find that Essien's face was blue and black, and he could only laugh and walk away to the Blues fan stands, where he repeated the same words again.
That excited and sincere expression also became a large picture of the game reported by many media after the game.
In the end, Liverpool beat Chelsea 2-1 at Stamford Bridge to secure their ticket to the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff.
This is the FA Cup semi-final between Liverpool and Chelsea. (To be continued......)