Leon's bold remarks after the Arsenal match quickly and unsurprisingly put Chelsea and himself at the forefront of discussion across Europe.

His self-confidence and desire to win the championship have won the appreciation and recognition of many fans.

Of course, on the other hand, there will be some fans who think that he is indeed arrogant and does not respect his opponents enough.

However, it is indeed as Leon said.

When Chelsea beat Arsenal in the 31st round of the Premier League, Chelsea were qualified enough to look forward to winning the title early.

After all, in the next two league games, Chelsea will face Fulham, who are bottom of the league, and Crystal Palace, who are sixth from the bottom of the league.

Of course, it will hurt if the relegation team succeeds in the backbite, but if they can defend well, it will be even more difficult for Fulham and Crystal Palace to beat Chelsea in an upset.

With a favourable schedule and morale in full swing, Chelsea don't look like they're going to roll over in the next two league games.

In contrast, Manchester City will be the more pressing side.

And Chelsea don't need City to lose, they just need to draw a little bit or two in the next fixtures, and that's enough for Chelsea.

And they have already played to the 31st round of the league, and they don't look so confident anymore.

Mourinho and the rest of the Chelsea players simply had a showdown in an interview, making it clear that they wanted to win the Premier League title this season.

However, after officially announcing the championship, Mourinho turned around and soaked in the training base with his coaching team with a serious expression.

They began to figure out how to arrange the starting line-up for the next two league games.

Chelsea's next play-offs and the 32nd round of the Premier League are indeed not strong, but the schedule is relatively tight.

And after these two league games, Chelsea will travel to Barcelona to prepare for the Champions League clash with Barcelona.

Therefore, rotation is a must, the playing time of the main veterans must be reduced accordingly, and Van Ginkel, Kalas and Oscar are also bound to take on more tactical responsibilities.

The players in the Chelsea first team returned to the training base on time after a day off against Arsenal.

After much thought, Mourinho finally chose to rest all the veterans in the play-off on March 26.

The likes of Ibrahimovic, Frank Lampard, John Terry and Petr Cech will all get more days off.

That way, after the Arsenal game, the veterans will be able to get a full seven days of recuperation, with two days left purely personally.

By 29 March, they will be able to meet the challenge of Crystal Palace in a more fit condition.

After that, the three-day rest will be a tough Champions League game against Barcelona.

In this arrangement, the veterans still have enough rest time, and the game can be well maintained.

So on the afternoon of March 26, Chelsea, who travelled to take on Fulham, was an almost completely young version of Chelsea.

The word 'almost' is used because Chelsea's back-up goalkeeper Schwarzer is over 40 years old and Ashley Cole is not young.

Neither of them is certainly in the ranks of the youngsters, but their experience is what this rotational Chelsea need.

In the extra game on the day, Chelsea's starting line-up was as follows:

Goalkeeper Schwarzer.

At the back, Ashley Cole, David Luiz, Gary Cahill and Cesar Azpilicueta lined up.

In midfield, Van Ginkel played as a lone midfielder. Leon and Essien split the flanks of midfield, with Ramirez advancing forward.

Up front, Romelu Lukaku and Oscar are partnered.

The diamond-shaped 442 starting formation weakened some of the attacking ability on the flanks, but greatly strengthened the attacking and defensive stability in the middle.

Li Ang has also not played as a starting partner with Essien for a long time.

At the end of the season, Essien is basically leaving the Premier League to find a team to retire from, so Leon also cherishes the days when he can still be with Essien.

The opposition is very weak, and Fulham have conceded a full 70 goals so far, which shows the control of the midfield and the weakness of the defensive line at the back.

So after five or six minutes of tentative play, Chelsea took over the tempo of the game very smoothly.

Leon signaled for Essien to be more involved in the attack today, while he himself blocked the flanks of Fulham's counter-attack with Van Ginkel on the defensive end.

In the vast majority of Premier League games, a strong midline doesn't get a good result, but today was an exception.

Because whether it is Heitinga or Hangrande, the two central defenders, both over 30 years old, have no good restrictions on Lukaku.

Romelu Lukaku, who had almost exclusive access to fire up front, has also transformed into a real bully in Chelsea's attack.

With Essien and Ramires constantly feeding him the ball, coupled with Oscar's offensive containment, Lukaku scored two goals directly in the first half, directly bringing the game into "Chelsea time".

Originally, before the start of the game, the whole Fulham team was a little happy to see Chelsea rotate on such a large scale, but also gave rise to some unrealistic illusions.

But he was stunned by Lukaku's small outburst, and Li Ang firmly defended to his teammates.

Fulham, who was already rotten, quickly lost his heart and almost surrendered with a white flag.

Leon was replaced by Jose Mourinho with Mikel in the 60th minute of the second half.

David Luiz, who had just returned from injury, was also replaced by Callas.

Romelu Lukaku played the full game today, and Jose Mourinho wanted to make his hat-trick come true.

But it's a pity that the passes sent to him by his teammates behind him were basically given to him.

Lukaku also assisted Oscar for a goal until the end of the game, but he was still far from scoring a third goal of the game.

Chelsea came out with a bloodless 3-0 win over Fulham.

And after this round of extra games, Mourinho also told Leon with a smile that in the next round of the league, Leon can sit on the bench and take a rest.

Li Ang naturally has no opinion on Mu Shuai's arrangement, he has not used physical recovery potions recently, and he just feels a little tired in his body.

So taking a break from the league and then preparing for Barcelona has become a better choice for him.

So three days later, at Selhurst Park, Leon sat on the bench unexpectedly by the media.

And the starter who replaced him was Van Ginkel.

The midfield three, consisting of Van Ginkel and Essingarand Lampard, was not used to deal with Crystal Palace.

At both ends of the offensive and defensive ends, the overall strength of this midfield trio is relatively balanced.

With Ibrahimovic, Eden Hazard and Kevin De Bruyne all starting today, no journalists or fans would have thought Chelsea would be unable to break Crystal Palace's half-time bus.

The game did start as Chelsea had predicted before the game.

Jose Mourinho has guessed that Palace will use the back three tactics that they specialize in.

So in the opening attack, Mourinho gave Essien and Frank Lampard more privileges to shoot from distance.

Even Ibrahimovic could look for an opportunity to try a long-range shot after pulling out of the box.

You don't have to shoot from distance to get past the Palace bus and get the back of the net, and being able to get a corner is also a dangerous opportunity for Chelsea.

In constant long-range shots and high-altitude bombardment. Ivanovic, who started today, successfully reversed again!

He stepped up from a corner and was once again a key player in breaking the deadlock.

Originally, after this goal was scored, Chelsea's advantage had already been established, and then it was more appropriate to see how many goals were scored and then closed.

But God is going to play a joke on Chelsea.

In first-half stoppage time, Crystal Palace's No.7 striker Jonthony Bolacier went down and sent a powerful sweeping pass.

Their centre-forward Jerrome came close to stealing a point, but he didn't touch the ball as John Terry made a mistake in clearing the ball and shoveled it into his own goal!

Terry's own goal and Petr Cech's stunned gaze on Terry's expression quickly spread across the net as the break approached.

Speaking of which, it was just an unfortunate mistake.

If the second half had gone well for Chelsea, it would have had no impact on John Terry.

But the bad thing is in the second half of the game, the Crystal Palace, which escaped from death, defended more resolutely, and their defender Yedilak also exploded directly and played an extraordinary level of play!

With Chelsea's switch to ground attack, Yedillac seemed to have become an unbreakable wall of stone in front of Palace's penalty area.

In the first 20 minutes of the second half, Yedilak was stunned to defuse Chelsea's ferocious attack with four tackles and five successful aerial duels!

Seeing this, Mourinho didn't dare to delay any longer, and directly called Leon to warm up!

More than 20,000 Crystal Palace fans in Selhurst Park saw Leon warming up on the sidelines, and hurriedly let out earth-shattering boos!

However, their actions obviously couldn't stop Li Ang from playing.

In the 71st minute of the second half, Leon replaced Essien, and brought the latest tactical instructions with Mourinho.

"Let's go on the wings more, pay attention to the combination of the side and the middle, Zlatan don't pull out of the box too often, you just press in their box, and their back is handed over to me!"

Leon's tactical explanation is very clear, and his words are also full of confidence, and it sounds like he doesn't take Crystal Palace's outstanding defender Yedillac at the moment into account.

But in fact, when Leon was observing from the sidelines, he had already come to a conclusion.

This Yedilak is a powerful man, and his ability is not weak.

However, now Chelsea are in desperate need of another goal to break the deadlock, so Leon will need to give his team-mates more confidence and motivation.

He will give Jedilak enough attention in his heart, but in words, he has to make his teammates feel strong and confident!

Soon after taking the field, Leon took over the responsibility of sorting out the team's offensive line.

After establishing the offensive strategy of playing two more wings and pulling more on the Crystal Palace defense.

Leon also frequently used his long balls to help Eden Hazard and Kevin De Bruyne take turns attacking Palace's wide defence.

Jedilak was brilliant in the middle, but he couldn't have been able to assist the two full-backs to withstand the pressure alone.

De Bruyne is actually okay, he didn't have a strong desire to force today.

But Hazard's ability, which is holding his breath in his heart, is very perverted.

Crystal Palace right-back Mariapa, who had been in the Championship for many years and only returned to the Premier League last season, was no match for Hazard.

In the 78th minute of the second half, after Hazard stunned Mariapa with two consecutive changes of direction, he sent a cross directly near the bottom line, trying to find Ibrahimovic to connect.

Crystal Palace's centre-back Delaney used his suffocating energy to force a head-to-head battle with Ibrahimovic, and neither of them seemed to gain control of the game.

But when the football flew outside the Crystal Palace penalty area, Li Ang had already relied on his excellent running position and prediction of the landing point of the football to occupy a favorable position to grab two points.

Naturally, Yedilak refused to give in, and had a fierce physical confrontation with Leon before the football fell.

However, Jedinak underestimated Leon's determination and excellent ability to fight.

After some fighting, he fell into the middle of the card position!

And at the moment when the football fell, Li Ang decisively hit the ball with his head. Then he took the ball directly to the front of the penalty area of Crystal Palace!

Yedilak didn't dare to let go easily. grabbed Leon's jersey and approached his own penalty area with Leon all the way.

Originally, Yedillac thought that Leon would take advantage of the situation to enter the Crystal Palace penalty area and shoot or pass the ball.

But he didn't expect that Leon was approaching the line of the Crystal Palace penalty area at the moment. I directly used my left foot to make a blast!

Crystal Palace goalkeeper Speroni reacted relatively quickly.

At the moment when Leon hit a long-range shot, he also made a timely save.

But his goal-line skills and reflexes are still a step behind the first-line goalkeepers.

Li Ang's long-range shot is very sufficient, and it can be described as a strong sinking!

Many fans in front of the TV seem to have missed the birth of this goal in the blink of an eye!

When the ball plunged headlong into the net just above the far corner of the Crystal Palace goal, the entire Selhurst Stadium fell silent!

Speroni asked with an angry roar as he fell from the sky.

But there was nothing Palace could do about the goal in front of him.

After all, the football was caught by Leon in the process of clearing the siege, and he forcibly got up and hit a long shot.

Yedillac has already tried his best to stop Leon, he can't take Leon down in front of the big penalty area, right?

That would only result in a severe penalty of a yellow or even red card, and then a threatening free-kick from close range to Chelsea.

So he can't help it, he can only blame Li Ang for hitting too resolutely and too tricky with a long-range shot this time!

Jose Mourinho was overjoyed on the sidelines with his assistants!

However, his mind was still very clear, and he didn't get too excited, and immediately after the happy celebration, he arranged for several defenders on the bench to warm up.

In the last moments of the game, Mourinho decisively used substitutions to disrupt the rhythm of Crystal Palace's counterattack, and kept the score of 2-1 until the end of the game!

Near-perfect starts, ups and downs, and thrilling results.

Chelsea eventually managed to make it two wins in a row in the league and meet their short-term goals.

And Leon, who once again killed the opponent hard, sparked a big discussion in English football, and it is estimated that Barcelona fans will not be able to sleep well these days.

Leon is still looking forward to returning to Camp Nou to play against Barcelona.

After all, he's won so many times in this stadium.

Coming back to Camp Nou is like coming home, it's a great feeling to win here!

(End of chapter)