"You don't have to wait until the replay is over, is it? Are we going to win two more games to win the championship early?! ”

"Then you have to count on Manchester City to drop points in the next two league games, and if they play two wins in a row, then we won't be able to win two more league games in advance."

'If only we had played the league with Leicester normally, now we would have a 17-point lead, God... I can't wait any longer! ”

"You want to exhaust yourself to death! If we had played Leicester City in that league game, we wouldn't have won the EFL Cup final so easily. ”

"Tottenham is just ~ 100 more finals, and it will be us who wins!"

……

On the night after the tie with Stoke City, Chelsea had their rare intra-squad dinner in recent times.

After a dense Devil's schedule, the frequency of Premier League matches is now back to normal.

With sufficient time to rest, Lao Mu naturally became generous, and after winning Stoke City, he gave the whole team two days of vacation.

In the private room of the dinner, every Chelsea first-team player was very relaxed and happy.

After a whole season of hard work, it was finally time for a bumper harvest, and everyone was very talkative.

After all, after a quick rebuild, the league title will be defended soon, or in the highly competitive Premier League.

Even if he is as calm as Li Ang, he is somewhat proud of himself now.

But chatting and blowing water is limited to tonight's dinner room.

After eating, several core players of the first team expressed their excitement, but they quickly regained their clarity.

Even a few young people who are not very sober, under the knocking of the big brothers in the team, at least they have restrained their restless emotions.

At this time, the veterans in the Chelsea team who are accustomed to seeing big storms still play a very important role in stabilizing the morale of the army.

They have won too much and lost too much, and they have a lot of experience in terms of mentality.

"There is an old family like a treasure", no matter what era it is put in, it will not be outdated in any club.

Lao Mu dared to give the whole team a leave with confidence, and let the young players in the team play casually during the vacation.

It's also because the veterans of John Terry, Frank Lampard and Didier Drogba are able to tie up the mentality of these youngsters.

Of course, with Leon taking the lead, Lukaku and Bertrand won't be too indulgent.

At least after this two-day holiday, none of the players in the team reported on returning to the team were in a physical condition that annoyed Lao Mu.

Chelsea continued to maintain a relatively high intensity in the training at the back.

Although Chelsea's opponents in the next round of the league are Queens Park Rangers, who are currently vice-leaders of the Premier League, there is little pressure on Chelsea.

But considering the first leg of the upcoming Champions League quarterfinals, Mourinho still does not dare to be careless.

Maintaining the intensity of training and maintaining the current state of the Chelsea team is very important for the subsequent sprint of Chelsea's third line.

If you really want to take a break, when Chelsea finish the second leg of the Champions League quarter-final on April 22, you can rest for three or five days.

Because if nothing else, by that time, Chelsea should have won the league title early and reached the final stage of this year's FA Cup.

Without the burden of playing more, the entire Chelsea squad will have a longer period of recuperation.

Then all it takes is to play the remaining four important games and Chelsea can have a perfect end to the season!

The goal of the season is no longer a vague concept, but a championship title that can be touched at hand.

So it's been a little harder lately, and the whole Chelsea squad can tolerate it.

Jose Mourinho is too familiar with this stage of the sprint preparations.

In the past, at Real Madrid, his grip on the dressing room was nowhere near as strong as it is at Chelsea, when he had to deal with a number of superstars in the squad at the same time.

But he still managed to lead Real Madrid to defend their La Liga and Champions League titles.

Now there is no need to worry too much about the dressing room relationship, and Mourinho has also put more energy into the tactical study of the whole Juventus team.

The opponent's head coach is him, Leon and Ibrahimovic's old acquaintances.

After many years, he played against Allegri again, Mourinho inexplicably sighed, after all, he didn't expect that Allegri would have the opportunity to bring the Serie A version of the "Galaxy Battleship".

At about the same time in Turin, Italy, Uncle Yu was also discussing with his assistants the tactical countermeasures needed to come up with in the next game against Chelsea.

However, compared to Mourinho's dedication to his tactical research, he still has a self-proof intention to defeat Mourinho in front of Leon at the moment.

After all, the experience of trying to save Li Ang to stay in Milan, but being repeatedly rejected by Li Ang, still broke Uncle Yan's heart.

In the cultivation of Li Ang, Uncle Yi also put a lot of effort and effort into it, even if it was only half a year.

But to be honest, without Uncle Yi's development of Li Ang's tactical use, Li Ang would indeed not have been able to grow up quickly and comprehensively after returning to Real Madrid.

Later, Leon has grown explosively year by year, and has become a strong contender for the world's No. 1 midfielder under Mourinho.

It was he who developed the use of Leang's forward attack, and he gave Leon more tactical freedom than Mourinho.

It was also he who discovered Li Ang's organizational ability and gave Li Ang the opportunity to organize the team alone.

But in the end, it was Mourinho who enjoyed the most benefits......

I can't stand this thing on any head coach!

used to stay in the sinking AC Milan, and there was no chance to continue to prove himself, so Uncle Yi endured it.

But now his coach Juventus has also dominated the league and also reached the top 8 of this season's Champions League!

Is his Juventus really weaker than Jose Mourinho's Chelsea?

Allegri doesn't think so!

When Chelsea and Juventus were drawn together at the draw ceremony, the Italian media was full of wails.

But Allegri was very happy with the result of the draw.

He doesn't blame Leon for firmly choosing to return to Real Madrid.

At that time, Milan really couldn't give Leon a more promising future.

But now Juventus can give Leon the platform and promise he wants!

Even if Leon ultimately chooses to continue following Mourinho, Allegri has at least untied his own knot.

He is not for anything else, but to prove to Leon that he is no worse than Mourinho!

He can also make good use of Li Ang and let Li Ang play at this level!

Uncle Awkward's obsession is very strong, in order to allow the veterans in the team to get more time to rest and face Chelsea in a better attitude.

He even decisively forfeited the 30th round of Serie A, allowing Roma and Lazio to close the gap between them and Juventus.

Of course, even if Juventus lose to Parma in this round, they are still 12 points ahead of second-placed Roma in the standings.

Strategically abandoning a league game is completely bearable for Juventus, and Juventus fans can understand.

Chelsea actually fielded an almost pure rotation squad in the league before the Champions League game, and also rotated all the main veterans in the squad.

Luckily, though, Chelsea faced a weak opponent in this round of the league and they won comfortably 2-0 away from home.

Leon played only 60 minutes in this league game and did not acquire any personal data.

But in the first half, Li Ang instigated an attack to help the team score an early goal to open up the situation.

The other two Chelsea players who started the game, Eden Hazard and Thiago Silva, were also decisively replaced by Jose Mourinho at half-time.

Just one day after the 32nd round of the Premier League, the entire Chelsea squad flew to Turin.

Jose Mourinho is once again Juventus' opponent.

Once again, he received numerous boos in the city.

Although the grudge comes from the previous two years when Mourinho was in charge of Inter Milan, he has also been away from Serie A for a long time.

But it is clear that Mourinho, who led Inter Milan to win the treble, has been branded with a strong blue and black label.

He is the head coach of Juventus' sworn rivals.

Even if it is another 10 years, 20 years, as long as he is still coaching, he will be the object of Juventus fans' boos when he comes to Turin.

Even the whole Chelsea team was inspired by the strong smell of pre-match gunpowder!

After the stamping on the pitch, the Chelsea squad quickly returned to their hotel.

Even Bertrand, who is now Chelsea's favourite in the squad, had no intention of getting a taste of Turin's nightlife on the eve of the game.

On the morning of 14 April, Chelsea completed their final pre-match practice session on the training ground provided by the Torino team.

And this season's Champions League 1/4 finals focus battle has officially entered the countdown before the start of the game!

Compared to the other Champions League quarter-final between Atletico Madrid and Arsenal, which will be played at the same time tonight, the Chelsea-Juventus duel has a lot more traffic.

The competition between the two major league leaders, the tactical game of Mourinho and Allegri, the two "utilitarian" representative coaches, and the reunion of Leon and Pirlo......

There were so many highlights of this game that after the live broadcast of the game that night began, the crazy growth of overseas viewership and viewership also made the UEFA executives laugh from ear to ear.

However, the scene of Leon smiling and shaking hands with Pogba during the parade ceremony still diluted a lot of the gunpowder smell of the game.

It is now well known in football that Pogba is a fan of Leon, even if the French supernova is only two years younger than Leon.

Shortly after making a name for himself in Serie A, Pogba directly expressed his admiration for Leon in an interview.

Regardless of whether he admired the all-round growth that Leon showed at the time, or the speed with which he reaped the heavyweight championship trophy, that's what he said anyway.

And in the following seasons, he has not changed his words.

Leon doesn't like to accept his younger brother indiscriminately, but Pogba has already made it clear and greeted him with a smile, of course, he has to mean it and express his friendliness.

However, it is okay to be friendly before and after the game, but in the game, Li Ang is not so easy to talk to!

At 19:45 Italian time that night, the first leg of the Champions League 1/4 final between Juventus and Chelsea officially began!

Juventus, who were at home, started with a stubborn posture, and Chelsea, who were the first to kick off, were also unceremonious, and immediately controlled the halfway line after spreading the formation.

Against Allegri's side, Mourinho did not have the tactical politeness he used to have.

Because he knows that Allegri, like himself, when he needs to defend first, he will firmly let the players on the field stick to it and not make tactical corners.

And against the current Juventus team, the most important thing is to fight for control of the midfield.

After all, if you want to talk about the strength of the midfield, the number one player in European football is of course Chelsea.

However, the second position is disputed, and many fans still habitually think that Bayern and Real Madrid's midfield is strong enough.

But in Mourinho's mind, Juventus' midfield strength is now second only to them in Europe!

Real Madrid's midfield is in dire need of reinforcements as Alonso gets older, while Bayern Munich are frustrated by Schweinsteiger's rapid decline.

Only Juventus, the current midfield configuration combines the old and the new, with a balanced attack and defense, and can break hands with Chelsea.

Mourinho is very serious about Pirlo's play.

So today he directly put Li Ang at the front of the midfield, just to let Li Ang compete with his teacher who used to be in Serie A!

With Leon's protection, Pirlo was able to put the organization behind and rejuvenate his second life in Milan.

And now, when the protector has become the destroyer, Mourinho wants to know whether the thugs Allegri arranged for Pirlo are limiting Leon's ability to play.

After many years, he met Pirlo again in the official arena, and Leon was very grateful to the master who had taught him.

Isn't Pirlo full of emotion at this moment?

However, both of them finally suppressed the emotions in their hearts, whether they were excited or emotional.

At least today, on this court, they are no longer master and apprentice, but direct competitors who need to draw their swords!

With Pogba and Marchisio on his left and right flanks, Pirlo can confidently hand over the playmaking for the time being.

Leon is not in a hurry, because he knows that Juventus will eventually need his teacher to control the pace of the game.

In terms of organizing attacks, Pogba and Malchisio have no problem, but in terms of control of the overall situation, they can't be compared to Pirlo.

Leon is well aware of the important task he has on his shoulders today.

He looked up and saw Pirlo's gaze looking back with the same smile at the moment.

"Master Pi, I no longer have you to protect you this time.

I'm here to show you what I've learned over the years! ”

(End of chapter)