Cristiano Ronaldo was not too disappointed at the celebration that day, even if he did not finish in the top three of the Ballon d'Or this year.

At first, Li Ang thought that Ronaldo had already had psychological expectations, and he had accepted this result after learning the news in advance.

At least when Li Ang was chatting and communicating with Ronaldo, he didn't feel that he was emotionally wrong.

But it wasn't until he had afternoon tea with Ronaldo that Leon learned from Ronaldo that he didn't care much about the Ballon d'Or this time.

"Messi is third, I'm fourth, in fact, it's just a foil... If you look at your performance, I think you deserve the Golden Globe award even more, little lion, and of course, Ribery deserves it. ”

Li Ang automatically filtered out Ronaldo's praise of him, and he finally realized that Ronaldo really only had Messi as an opponent in his eyes.

Messi and he can't win this Ballon d'Or, so for him, his competition with Messi last year didn't make much sense.

Ribery won the Ballon d'Or this time, and it is impossible for him to directly finish in the top two among the active players in football.

So Ronaldo doesn't care at all about the fact that he doesn't even make it into the top three of the Ballon d'Or, he only has Messi and No. 1 in his eyes.

The two talked freely during this brief time together.

Ronaldo is still so upright, not only asking Li Ang about the current ecological pattern of the Premier League and the recent situation of Manchester United.

He even complained directly to Leon about the small conflict between Real Madrid's management in the past season, or Lafayette's and him personally.

In private conversations, Leon has always been firm on Ronaldo's side.

It's no wonder that he has been away for a season and a half, and Ronaldo still regards him as one of his best few friends.

After all, some things are not about whether they are justified or not, and whether they look at reality to judge right or wrong.

In many cases, the orientation of the butt is more important than the clarity of the mind, and it is also more likely to win the trust of others.

And Leon's mouth is also tight enough, when he was still at Real Madrid, whether it was the relationship with the Spanish gang or with the Portuguese gang teammates, he could handle it very well.

He can do this not only because he speaks well.

Good at communicating, good at listening, and better at confidentiality.

This is an important reason why he is invincible in the development of interpersonal relationships.

"Sometimes... I'll be honest, little lion, I wish you were still on the team, Hames is good, he's good... But you're completely different, and I miss the days when I played with you. ”

Before parting, Ronaldo and Leon hugged and there was a wave of true feelings.

In fact, as early as last season, after losing to Atletico Madrid in the two legs of the Champions League semifinals, Ronaldo expressed a similar statement very bluntly in an interview with a reporter from Marca.

At that time, Atletico Madrid fans also mocked Ronaldo, saying that he could not afford to lose.

But in the case of the dominant public opinion environment, no Atletico Madrid fan dares to boldly say that even if Leon is still in Real Madrid, they can still win the two-legged tough battle with Real Madrid.

It can be said that Ronaldo's regret at that time was also the regret of all Real Madrid fans.

Leon could no longer remain silent about this.

He patted Ronaldo on the shoulder.

"I also miss the days when I was with you guys......"

After saying goodbye, the two looked at each other and smiled.

After the tacit end of the discussion on this topic, Ronaldo and Leon also parted in Zurich.

Their private friendship is still the same, but they are already one of each other's rivals when it comes to fighting for supremacy in football.

Of course, their competition is still ongoing, but that doesn't mean it's all going to be the same in the future.

After all, Ronaldo is six years older than Li Ang, and his mentality will eventually change with age.

In football, you should never say "impossible".

Maybe one day in the future, they will be able to fight hand in hand, who can say for sure?

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Leon returned to London with the halo of Mr. Silver Ball, but the major media in England gave him an over-the-top welcome in terms of public opinion.

Passers-by who don't know the situation still think that Li Ang won the 2014 Golden Ball on behalf of the Premier League.

This battle made Li Ang somewhat helpless.

But there is no way, the Silver Ball Award won by Li Ang this year is already the strongest individual honor won by a Premier League player after Ronaldo in early 09.

It took six years to look forward to such a supergiant who has the strength to compete for the Golden Globe Award, and it is understandable that the British media is boiling as a whole because of this.

However, due to the media exaggeration, the number of fans who have a bad impression of Leon or Chelsea has also increased in recent days.

Many of them are fans of Bayern and Ribery.

Leon was really good last season, and the numbers at the beginning of the season were explosive.

But after all, it was Franck Franck who won the Champions League and treble last season.

While the whole European public opinion environment praised Ribery and Bayern's achievements last season, the media on the English side was very faceless.

Anyone will feel unbearable and want to launch a public opinion counterattack.

In this moment of provoking the emotions of the masses, reason naturally becomes a luxury.

Many Bayern fans accidentally injured Leon while scolding the English media, and Chelsea fans naturally launched a counterattack.

As soon as the economic team behind Li Ang saw that something was wrong, they decisively turned on the public relations mode.

However, Li Ang himself was very silent under such a storm of public opinion.

Li Ang, who has experienced many waves of public opinion, has not changed his psychological consciousness when he first stepped into the professional arena.

A star, his reputation is good or bad, and what his status is in the football world, many times it needs to be touted by the media and public opinion.

But as a professional player, the reputation status in the fan base has always been very intuitive.

It's better to play the game well than to play well in a game, and it is better to play well in a period of time than to play the game well all year round.

Show on the field, you can play tough battles, you can win.

Then public opinion will naturally help you gain the upper hand.

For Leon now, it is not difficult to "play a good game", what he does not need is over-the-top hype.

After automatically blocking the intensifying public opinion attacks from the outside world, Li Ang also devoted himself to the preparation and training for the follow-up events.

He won the Silver Ball for his outstanding performances and team results last season, which is also a very morale boost for the whole Chelsea team.

The positive changes in the team, Mourinho is in sight.

There's no need for any more chicken soup from the coaching staff.

There is a sense of energy in the Chelsea squad, both older and younger.

They were a long way from reaching the top of European football last season, but they have come far enough and they have made a big difference to their squad this season.

One time is enough for many regretful experiences, and the pain of failure will motivate them to start afresh and move to a higher peak.

And now, whether it is Leon personally or the honor goal of the whole Chelsea team, only one thing left is to reach the top of football.

So whether it's for themselves, for the Chelsea team, or to help Leon, they all have the more eager motivation and determination to reach the top.

After the final three days of training, the Chelsea squad is back on their way to the Premier League.

On January 17, Jose Mourinho led his team to Swansea City to meet the challenge from the 22nd round of the Premier League.

Swansea have performed well and ranked well in the Premier League this season, even rushing into the top six at the beginning of the season, closing in the top four.

However, after the arrival of the Christmas Devils' schedule, their rankings began to fluctuate and slip all the way, like many similar teams in the middle and lower reaches of previous years.

Since the 19th round of the league, Swansea have lost two and drawn one, and are winless in three consecutive league games.

This caused them to slip directly from sixth to tenth in the league standings.

At present, it seems that Swansea, which has lost many of its main players because of the winter devil's schedule, will continue to live a hard time of declining rankings one after another.

Chelsea have not shown mercy to Swansea's recent misery.

After a full week's rest, Terry and Ibrahimovic were back in full swing.

The rest of Chelsea's young players are full of energy and fitness.

Chelsea, who offered a 433 starting formation, dominated the away team at the Liberty Stadium, and launched a strong pressure and impact on the home team Swansea from the beginning of the game!

Compared to when the two teams met in the first half of the league, Swansea manager Gary Munch is much more pragmatic now.

He didn't expect to pull off a miracle in this game and win against Chelsea.

After all, when the two teams met for the first time this season, Swansea played the main team, and there was no good way to take Chelsea's strong midfield.

Now Swansea's two main midfielders Ji Chengyong and Shelvey are both out due to injury, and Gary Munch can only choose to play pragmatically on the counter-attack.

It's a pity that he has put his tactical posture low enough today, but the players of the Chelsea team are not willing to let go of the soft persimmon of Swansea easily.

Leon was basically only responsible for guiding the offense in the frontcourt today, and he didn't do any work on the defensive end.

Nemanja Matic and Kroos were enough to stifle Swansea's less threatening counter-attack.

And Leon, who was concentrating on tearing apart Swansea's defence, did not make Chelsea fans wait too long.

In the thirteenth minute of the first half, he turned around with a pull ball after receiving the ball with his back in front of the court, and directly turned Sigurdsson, who played a cameo in the back today, into a muggle.

Sigurdsson is also very helpless, he was not originally playing in the position of a midfielder, but the team's midfield is now very short of people, and he also has to make a temporary cameo.

His defensive awareness is not the slightest bit poor.

Although he was desperate in the follow-up, he still couldn't prevent Li Ang from sending a diagonal straight stopper, assisting Hazard to break into the penalty area and shoot low into the near corner!

Fabianski failed to make a save and was so angry that he wanted to curse.

But when he looked up, he didn't see the familiar captain Ashley Williams in front of him, and he forcibly swallowed the swear words that had already come to his lips.

“…… Swansea's injury situation in the midfield is too serious, neither of the two main midfielders can play, and the main central defender Ashley Williams is also out due to injury, and their current backline is really difficult to resist Chelsea's attack! ”

After Zhan Jun passionately celebrated the successful connection between Li Ang and Hazard in the studio, he couldn't help but say a few words for Swansea.

If the Premier League schedule had been more reasonable, and one of the two domestic cup competitions had been cancelled.

Swansea, who had a miraculous record at the start of the season, should still be in the top six or even in the race for fourth.

And it's because of the unreasonable winter devil schedule and heavy cup tasks.

Such a Swansea that could have done a miracle was brutally destroyed by a wave of injuries.

As a viewer and commentator who loves the Premier League, Zhan Jun naturally feels sorry for a small and medium-sized team like Swansea from the bottom of his heart.

But it can't be helped, the tight schedule and fast-paced game mode have also contributed to the development and prosperity of the Premier League.

If you can survive it, you can create a miracle to become Leicester City, and if you can't survive it, Swansea is just Swansea.

The Swansea fans who were close to being crushed were distressed.

And Leon is like a merciless executioner at this moment, still tirelessly looking for an opportunity to further tear open Swansea's wounds!

The game played in the 22nd minute of the first half, less than 10 minutes before Chelsea scored their first deadlock-breaking goal.

It was Li Ang who faked a shot on the right side of the Swansea penalty area and staged a wonderful performance!

After shaking off Swansea's young defender Tom Carroll, Leon rushed to Swansea central defender Amat to put the ball into the middle of the Swansea penalty area!

With Li Ang's tacit cooperation, Iboui, who completed the forward insertion, stopped Fernandez, another central defender of Swansea, and then chose to volley directly without stopping the ball!

With such a powerful volley from close range, Fabianski only rubbed slightly to the side of the ball, changing the trajectory of the ball, but still could not prevent the ball from crossing the line and entering the net!

In less than half an hour of playtime, Leon delivered two assists with his superior individual ability.

The pace of the game was a delight for Chelsea and Leon supporters.

However, after the end of the first half, Leon's stats were still fixed on two assists and could not be reaped.

It wasn't until the 68th minute of the second half that Leon got his third assist of the game.

After receiving Ibrahimovic's return ball at the edge of the penalty area, Leon chose to advance directly with the ball and burst into the Swansea area.

Amat was afraid that Leon would shoot directly in the penalty area, and he would press over and interfere with Leon's shot at the first time.

But Li Ang simply crossed and helped Ibrahimovic easily push the goal at the back of the goal!

When Li Ang completed the hat trick of assists, even if the game was not over, the public opinion dispute around him in the outside world directly subsided.

It is necessary to build public opinion, but it is really hard to show hardness.

(End of chapter)