Chapter 202 In London, no one can lose to Tottenham! [Ask the bigwigs to subscribe! ] 】
Since Leon stepped into the professional arena, he has played a lot of derby games.
He has played in Madrid derby, Spanish national derby and even Milan derby.
In comparison, the "London Derby" seems to be a little less gunpowdery.
However, it may also have something to do with the fact that there are too many English professional teams in London.
The fans have been diverted, and there are too many "London derby" games to watch in a year, which has led to a serious reduction in expectations.
For example, the London derby between Chelsea and Fulham in the next round has not received much expectation from neutral fans.
There should now be only three derbies in the London area that can generate widespread interest from fans.
Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspur's north London derby.
London derby between Arsenal and Chelsea.
and London derbies between Tottenham and Chelsea.
Leon knows a thing or two about the rival relationship between Chelsea and Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspur.
In contrast, the relationship between Chelsea and Arsenal is actually fine.
When the game is played, there is a strong smell of gunpowder, but at the club level, the trade and transfer of players has not been stopped.
But it's not the same with Tottenham, it's not just that the fan base is hostile to each other, and there are frequent fights.
When it comes to first-team player trades, Chelsea and Tottenham have had little contact.
If it comes to Chelsea's "ancient history", it is even more of a history of blood and tears about players between Hotspur and Tottenham.
At least as far as Chelsea's dressing room is concerned, Leon can only say that he has foreseen the hot scene when he plays Tottenham in the sixth round of the Premier League.
Retreat is certainly not going to back down, and to talk about humility and civility in a derby is to betray the supporters of your own team.
At most, Li Ang maintains the principle that he does not take the initiative to hurt others, and at the confrontation level, he will naturally make a heavy hand at that time.
And there is just one Fulham that can allow Leon to practice his hands, and first feel the intensity of the gunpowder-like London derby.
On the afternoon of 21 September, the Chelsea and Fulham starters returned to the dressing room after completing their warm-up to make final tactical preparations.
Jose Mourinho has repeatedly stressed in the dressing room that it is necessary to have a full psychological understanding of the confrontation actions of the Fulham players.
At first, Leon felt that he had been mentally prepared.
But in the first minute of the game, he was tripped on the turf by Fulham midfielder Skasami with an unconventional defensive move!
And just when Leon was still thinking about whether he and this big Swiss brother named Casami had had any holiday before.
Terry was already scolding and rushing forward with the tall Kasami!
The first minute of the opening game clashed, and countless neutral fans watching the game were addicted!
Leon also reacted at this time, it turned out that what Lampard said didn't smell too much gunpowder was this level of confrontation...
Leon, who had no one to guide him, thought he was in control of the London derby.
But what he didn't know was that this was just a provocative ploy by the young Swiss midfielder Kasami to get more attention.
Or is it because there are not many popular things.
Leon's popularity in the Premier League is now increasing day by day.
Kasami, who has only just established himself in Fulham, thinks he has a good match.
If he can get some good confrontation shots against Leon, then he may be able to get more attention from the Premier League teams.
However, he underestimated the devotion to Leon from the veterans of the current Chelsea squad.
In the face of Terry's roaring rushing figure, Kasami only stood up for less than a second, then pushed Terry away from the heart, and then looked for an opportunity to drill into the referee's side.
Premier League veterans like Scott Parker and Hangrid can't care about scolding their own young boys.
They hurriedly stepped forward to stop Terry and let the Premier League defender take his breath first.
Terry finally looked at his old team-mate Parker's face, and finally glared at Kasami fiercely, and then slowly walked towards his own half.
Frank Lampard covered his mouth and told Leon that it was all right, only to turn his head and appeal to the referee.
Li Ang watched his captain and team deputy deal with it, and couldn't help but give them a silent thumbs up in his heart.
One is playful, the other is reasonable.
The referee was basically negotiating with Frank Lampard in the end, and did not say much about the fact that John Terry and Kasami almost caused a clash just now.
As for the result of the referee's final verbal warning to Kasami, Leon was quite satisfied.
But the field he lost, he had to get it back himself.
So after the game restarted, Leon didn't hold it anymore, and stared at Kasami to play one-on-one grappling when defending!
He doesn't care what kind of mentality Kasami had when he opened the game, when did he suffer such a loss on the court?
Just because he never takes the initiative to hurt people, he seems to have a clean and honest style of play?
Isn't that Kasami bullying honest people!
Leon can get used to him?!
Kasami, who is 1.88 meters tall and weighs 87 kilograms, was confident at first.
He definitely doesn't have the courage to engage Terry, not to mention whether he can win against him on the field, in terms of Premier League qualifications, he is a Premier League newcomer who dares to be tough with Terry?
Terry didn't have to clean him up, and when he went back to the locker room after the game, Parker and Hungland cleaned him up first.
But against Leon, Kasami feels that he is completely worthy of the confrontation at least on the field.
But he didn't last until twenty minutes, and Kasami was tortured by Leon's marking!
Leon's confrontation has never been a one-shot deal, what he pursues is sustainable defensive torture, grappling and fighting, that is, of course, both entanglement and fighting.
Compared with Kasami and Leon, the tonnage is actually almost the same, that is, there is a difference of a few centimeters in height, and in the static confrontation, the two are really half a catty.
It may be that Leon's not-so-bloated figure gave Kasami the illusion at first.
Now that he has personally experienced Leon's actual confrontation ability, Kasami has actually begun to regret it.
But that's not all, Leon was able to compete with Diego Costa in La Liga.
Here are some small moves to deal with Kasami. That's a complete trivial.
So after another five minutes, as soon as Kasami saw that Leon had signs of raising his arm, his legs were almost weak!
This iron elbow, who is afraid of it!
Anyway, Kasami felt that he couldn't stand it anymore.
In the end, the referee couldn't watch it, and verbally warned Li Ang to make him move a little more restrained.
Leon smiled harmlessly and nodded his head to show that he understood.
But after this torture and blow, Kasami no longer has much of the mind to dare to confront Leon.
This guy played this game as a striker, or as a second striker.
He softened down, and Fulham's offensive development in the front court basically needed Darren Bentra to get out of the box as a fulcrum.
And when Fulham spread out on both wings and wanted to play a dozen crosses, there was only one Darren Bent in the box.
Kasami looked at Terry's fierce eyes and felt that he was better off tackling his team-mates from outside the box.
He kicked like this, which is equivalent to leaving all the dirty work to Darren Ben alone, and Fulham is still attacking a ball!
And in contrast to Fulham's attacking smuff, the attacking rhythm of Chelsea's wings is stronger than the other!
How can Sashalit and Duff, Fulham's right-sided pairing, withstand the onslaught of Eden Hazard and Bertrand?
Leon was patronizing and torturing Casami in the first half, so he didn't get too involved in the attack.
But Frank Lampard, who has taken over the attacking load from his shoulders, is still in his prime.
In the 31st minute of the first half, Frank Lampard received a short pass from Ibrahimovic in front of the penalty area, pulled out his foot and shot angrily, and took the lead in penetrating the door of Fulham!
After conceding the goal, Fulham did not directly launch an active forward attack.
They were sensible and dragged the 0-1 score until half-time.
At the start of the second half, Fulham replaced Kasami, who had been inactive throughout the first half, with technical striker Tarabut.
When Li Ang saw that the Swiss stupid big man was not on the field, he was very disappointed.
So at the beginning of the second half, he changed the target again and tortured Tarabut!
Seeing the accelerated loss of game time, their own offense still did not improve.
Dutch coach Martin Yol is also in a hurry.
Fulham had to take the initiative to set off an attacking frenzy after the 65th minute of the second half.
And Chelsea waited patiently enough for their favourite anti-counter-rhythm!
Jose Mourinho replaced De Bruyne with Romelu Lukaku first, and then signaled that Leon had enough to defend his position.
In the 75th minute of the second half, it was on the speed of Leon on the counter-attack that Chelsea quickly broke through Fulham's empty midfield.
Leon's advance was enough to send a diagonal through ball for Lukaku to break down Fulham's left defence!
After cutting into Fulham's penalty area, Lukaku sensibly played the ball back to Leon.
Li Ang saw Hazard, who was already in the unguarded area under the control of Ibrahimovic's running, and did not hesitate to send the ball out again!
Eden Hazard did not live up to Leon's trust, and after a slight adjustment, he took a shot from the left side of Fulham's penalty area.
He killed the suspense of the game directly with a beautiful curling ball!
2-0!
With less than twenty minutes left in the game, the score was already relatively safe.
Jose Mourinho was not greedy for too much, and made direct substitutions, replacing Matic and Gary Cahill with today's two goalscorers, Frank Lampard and Eden Hazard.
And Chelsea also changed their formation and changed to five, three, two.
In front of the three central defenders, Nemanja Matic, Leon and Ramirez lined up.
Okay, it's still a set of three backs at the last moment.
At this time, not only the fans of the Premier League are complaining, but also the fans of La Liga who occasionally watch the Premier League games can't help but complain.
After all, in the past two years, almost every La Liga team has been tortured by Mourinho's Real Madrid with this trick.
But I have to say that if you change your perspective and see your team win so steadily at this time, the feeling will naturally change from uncomfortable to extremely comfortable~
For example, Chelsea fans feel very comfortable at the moment.
It's not a great feeling to win a game that you deserve to win!
Chelsea's win over Basel in the last round was a thrilling and exhilarating affair.
But they have to have a choice, they would rather win every game so "boringly", rather than watch their own team reverse and win in fear.
And when the score of this game ended at 2-0, Chelsea's opening winning streak in the Premier League also came to five!
After the first five rounds of the Premier League, Premier League fans were surprised to find that the top three teams in the Premier League actually happened to be the top three in London!
Chelsea have won all five games and have 15 points and are currently top of the Premier League.
Arsenal and Tottenham are second and third in the Premier League respectively, with both teams still having four wins and one defeat.
It's just that Arsenal is temporarily second in the Premier League because of the advantage of leading by one goal difference.
Manchester City and Liverpool are fourth and fifth in the Premier League, and in sixth place is Southampton, who have a current record of two wins, two draws and one loss.
The current rankings still don't tell too much, after all, the sample size of the competition is still too small.
However, a large number of Premier League fans have also eagerly discussed the reasons why the London top three teams have started the season in good form.
Needless to say, Chelsea's return and Abou's generous investment have poached Leon and Ibrahimovic, two gods in the midfield, and it is natural to produce results.
Tottenham also completed a spree of signings and a restructuring of the team's age structure by selling Bale for 100 million euros.
Overall, the transfusion was relatively successful.
At least for now, it seems so.
Arsenal's transformation this season has been somewhat unexpected by Premier League fans.
When it comes to recruitment, Arsene Wenger has indeed made a bloody investment this season.
But the players he brought in were just Cavani and a veteran defender Tulalang from Malaga.
But with one player in the middle and one in the attack, you don't really want to say that Arsenal's game looks to be more fluid and attacking than last season!
Tulalang is indeed over 30 years old, but the strength of this French defender is not weak at all.
In just one game, the duo of Tulalang and Arteta has taken Arsenal's central hardness up a notch!
In the past, Premier League fans criticized Arsenal, saying that the Gunners were more than attacking and not defending enough.
Especially in central midfield, with Mikel Arteta to protect the edge of the box? Isn't that!
A good backfield organization core, but after coming to Arsenal, he had to push up the midline defense.
This top has only been on for two years, which can only be said to be hard.
Tulalang's arrival not only helped Arteta share most of the defensive pressure, but also helped Arteta share some of the playmaking and tactical tasks on the ball.
Arteta's shoulders are lighter, and his performance is getting better and better.
In the first five Premier League games of the new season, Arteta played all the time, not to mention, but also scored three assists, and the efficiency is simply scary!
After coming to the Premier League, Cavani only used the first Premier League game to adapt to the rhythm, and from the second league game onwards, he has gained personal attacking statistics in every game.
Three goals and one assist in five league games!
Cavani's excellent performance has made many Arsenal fans gradually forget the pain of Van Persie's departure from Highbury.
With two reinforcements, Arsenal has almost jumped directly from the strength of the fourth to the threshold of qualifying for the championship!
Arsene Wenger's work in this summer window has also received heartfelt praise from many fans.
What Premier League fans are most eager to see now is, of course, Chelsea and Arsenal, two powerhouses in London.
However, it would be nice to see a gunpowder clash between Chelsea and Tottenham before the two teams meet.
At the Cobham training base, John Terry has already completed the pre-game mobilization with all the Chelsea players.
His mobilization slogan was also crude and simple:
In London, we can't lose to anyone we can't lose to XXX's Tottenham!
The update of 15,000 has been achieved!
The foodie went to sleep, hoping to have a good state tomorrow!
(End of chapter)