Chapter Forty-Eight: Approaching the Great Record

Chelsea's players celebrated with excitement at the Emirates Stadium. Draw.

It's like celebrating a victory.

They certainly had reason to celebrate, as they avoided the fate of being beaten twice by Arsenal as Liverpool did.

This season's Arsenal have put too much pressure on a team like Chelsea.

Rafael Benitez walked briskly towards Arsene Wenger, and after the two shook hands, he looked at the pitch and sighed inwardly.

It's just a draw.

They didn't win the game, is it worth celebrating?

Benitez looked at Yelo, who was walking quickly out of the pitch.

It's this guy who makes Chelsea stars so happy after a draw.

However, the draw is indeed worth rejoicing for a while.

Instead of stopping his player, Benitez turned around and walked into the tunnel to return to the dressing room.

After this game.

Manchester City and Manchester United caught up.

Manchester City are two points behind Arsenal and Manchester United by one.

There is only a difference of one or two points, and this difference can change in one game at most.

Chelsea, on the other hand, were left a little far behind.

They are five points behind Arsenal at the top of the table.

However, they have not been completely left behind, and in theory, Chelsea still have a chance to compete for the title.

After twenty-five rounds of league play.

Arsenal, for their part, have won 19 league games, drawn five and lost one, and are top of the table with 62 points.

Manchester United are second with 61 points, Manchester City third with 60 and Chelsea fourth with 57.

In fifth place is Tottenham, with 47 points, 10 points behind fourth-placed Chelsea.

Chelsea's draw away at Arsenal has heightened the overall suspense in the Premier League.

Manchester United and Manchester City both took the opportunity to close the gap on Arsenal and stretch the gap to within three points.

A game of gaps.

After the game in this game.

Of course, reporters will go and interview the managers of the four championship teams.

Benitez appeared calm when facing reporters and did not show much joy.

'We got a draw at the Emirates Stadium and that's nothing to be happy about, for Chelsea it takes to win the league title, whoever it is! , he said.

Arsene Wenger has some regrets about this game, but he doesn't want to put too much pressure on his players, and the league has reached this stage, and the fitness of many players has reached a critical point.

At this moment.

A lot of players need willpower to grit their teeth and support them.

If the pressure is too high at this time, there are only two possibilities.

One is to face the pressure and face the difficulties, the greater the pressure, the better the performance.

One is to be crushed by pressure!

Arsene Wenger believes Yelo is the first type of player.

But he can't guarantee that the rest of Arsenal's players will do the same.

That's why he said: "It's a shame to have a draw, but the season is long and we can't guarantee that we can win all the time. We're still at the top of the table and Arsenal don't have anything to worry about. ”

Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson was very aggressive in his media remarks: "I know they're under a lot of pressure, and that's good because we're going to keep putting pressure on them until they break down!" ”

This is Ferguson's style, and in terms of war of words, in the entire Premier League era, perhaps only Jose Mourinho, who was in charge of Chelsea back then, can overpower him.

Using the media to create pressure on opponents is something that Ferguson can say is at his fingertips.

Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini is under a lot of pressure as it was rumored during midweek training that he and his lover Balotelli had clashed violently, and the clash may have escalated from a verbal to a physical level.

Although the media only got a few words, they were unable to enter the Manchester City base to capture the footage.

But judging by Balotelli's absence from the training base the next day, the clash should have been intense.

But that's all Mancini's troubles are.

He was really optimistic about Balotelli, and the media even called Balotelli Mancini's own son at one point.

But who would have thought that Balotelli would slide so quickly.

In front of the media, both Manchester City's players and Roberto Mancini were silent about it.

However, for the competition for the championship zone, Mancini is willing to talk a little more.

In front of Manchester City's training base, Mancini said with a serious face: "There is still a lot of suspense in the championship, what we have to do is to play well game by game." ”

In the face of fierce competition, the performance of each team in each round of the game has to be examined under a magnifying glass by the media.

On February 7, in the 25th round of the league, Arsenal faced Stoke City at home.

In this game, Arsenal won 1-0, and Yelo scored a goal to increase his league goal tally to 31!

"Yelo is on his way to the Premier League's single-season goal record!"

After the game, some media finally put forward this problem that many people realized at the beginning of the season: with Ye Luo's goal efficiency, he is very likely to break the Premier League single-season goal record soon!

Prior to that, the Premier League single-season goal record was held by Alan Shearer (1994-1995) and Andy Cole (1993-1994) with 34 goals. It is worth mentioning that in the era of Shearer and Cole, there were 42 games in a single season in the Premier League, and now that number is 38.

And the record holder for the most goals scored in a single season with the same 38 games is Cristiano. Ronaldo.

In the 2007/08 season, Cristiano Ronaldo, then 22 years old, scored 31 goals in 34 Premier League games, becoming the number one on the list at the time.

Today, Yelo has equalled Cristiano Ronaldo's record, but he is three goals away from Shearer and Cole's.

So now the reaction of the media is a little subtle.

Reporters and editors in the English media have an indescribable sense of unhappiness at the thought that the Premier League record will be broken by Yelo, and may even set a new record that will leave everyone stunned.

In fact, this is a kind of "racial superiority" psychology at work.

If Ye Luo is a believer in Western culture, his skin color is white or black.

Then now the English media has long been blowing it.

If Yelo happens to be an Englishman.

Then the English media cannot be described as blowing.

It's just a squirt.

But on the contrary.

Ye Luo is a native of the Dragon Kingdom.

The color of his skin, his cultural background, the civilization behind him that can be on par with Western civilization.

It all made those English journalists very unhappy, so by now, Yelo has equaled Cristiano. Ronaldo's record was met with a mediocre response from the media in England and even in Europe.

They certainly have a reason, too.

Because it's not the highest record in the Premier League

But the Dragon Kingdom media doesn't have this scruples.

They desperately advertised that Ye Luo equaled Cristiano Ronaldo's goal record in the Premier League.

"Southland Sports Daily" is very optimistic in the report: "It took Yelo 25 games to tie Ronaldo's single-season goal record in the Premier League, he scored 31 Premier League goals, and there are only three goals left from Alan Shearer and Andy Cole's 34 Premier League goal records, three goals are definitely not difficult for Yelo, he may even tie this record in one game!" And he still has thirteen games to finish it, so let's look forward to it, but after 38 Premier League games, how far will Yelo improve the Premier League's goal record? ”

'He's made history in La Liga and now he's about to write his own monument in the Premier League!'

The media and fans of Dragon Country are very concerned about when Ye Luo will break the record.

In England though.

People are more concerned about the 20th round of the league.

On February 11, the twenty-sixth round of the league.

Arsenal are at home to Manchester City.

Meanwhile, Manchester United host Chelsea at home.

The "civil war" between the four teams competing for the championship was also played at the same time.

This is the grand occasion of this round.

If Manchester United win at home to Chelsea and Arsenal lose at home to Manchester City.

Arsenal's lead will be wiped out.

They will slip to third place.

Due to the first leg of the Champions League quarter-finals in midweek.

So the two key matches were scheduled to start at the same time – and if they could, the Premier League officials didn't want to.

Because the two focus battles started at the same time, it will definitely divert a lot of traffic.

"Manchester United are ahead?!"

Wenger had just sat down in his dugout when he heard the exclamation of his assistant Blake.

He asked hurriedly.

"Yes, Manchester United are ahead! Wayne Rooney scored a long-range shot in the first minute of the game! Blake's face was a little unpleasant.

"It's really unlucky." Arsene Wenger shook his head, not knowing if he was talking about Chelsea or his own Arsenal.

However, Arsene Wenger is not surprised that United are ahead of Chelsea at home, as he and Alex Ferguson have both been competing for almost two decades.

In the Champions League, he didn't dare to say it.

But in the league, the consistency of Ferguson's side in key battles is absolutely terrifying.

Especially on their home turf.

'Chelsea are too useless, they have such a strong squad. Blake said with annoyance.

"Forget it, don't care about the situation over there, let's play our own game first."

Arsene Wenger said, looking at the pitch.

This game is also a focus battle.

The main forces of both sides are net out.

Even on their home turf, Manchester City are by no means easy opponents to play against.

Especially at the end of the season, the fatigue of Arsenal's players is definitely worse than that of Manchester City, who have a thicker squad than them

This is a hidden danger for Arsenal.

(End of chapter)