Halfway through this season's Premier League, Chelsea's title result was already expected by many.

It's not that Chelsea's rivals aren't strong enough, and this year's Manchester City and Arsenal have actually had very good results compared to previous years.

It can only be said that Chelsea's efficiency in collecting points so far is really frightening.

Manchester City have made a bit of a mistake in the last few rounds, and after dropping points in quick succession, they have taken a total of 76 points.

With five league games remaining, Manchester City may even be hoping to push their season points above 90 points, which is really not a bad performance.

It's just that Chelsea has not played six league games, and the points have come to 92 points, and this season is rushing to break 100 points.

This performance is a complete deflection blow for other Premier League teams.

And, with no foreseeable changes to the squad, Chelsea will remain fairly dominant in the Premier League next season.

This is the current situation that is even more of a headache for several other big teams in the Premier League.

If you want to compete with Chelsea, you have to invest more consistently.

Because it is not enough to spend a wave of money, you must spend enough transfer fees in two or three transfer windows to have a chance to bring in enough top players in football to complete the lineup.

And it seems that at present, only Manchester City in the Premier League has the strength and financial foundation to continue to fight with Chelsea.

Liverpool's big boss is rich, but the investment is very rational, there is no so-called local tyrant style at all, and it is unlikely that Liverpool will rise quickly in the short term.

The situation at Arsenal FC is even more complicated.

Both the big boss and the second boss have money, but both sides want to swallow each other's shares.

Before they fully controlled the club, the two local tyrants were also afraid of making wedding dresses for each other, so they were unwilling to increase their investment.

Manchester United's words, emm...... Forget it, there's not much to talk about, the Red Devils are now just a commercial club in the guise of a football club.

When it comes to the mentality of making money and engaging their own fans, Manchester United is very good at it.

But when it comes to football results, the current Manchester United is the top of the sky, that is, mixing in the top four of the Premier League, and don't think about winning the league title.

Overall, it's a good time for Chelsea right now.

Several ambitious clubs in the league have not been able to increase their investment for one reason or another, and Manchester City are the only ones in the mix.

As the next few transfer windows continue to be invested, Manchester City's strength will continue to grow.

Perhaps in two seasons, they will really have the ability to compete with Chelsea.

But at least next season, Chelsea will be confident of holding Manchester City to dominate the Premier League.

The reason is simple, even if enough big-name players are brought in, Manchester City will need to spend at least half a season to run in the new squad.

Manchester City's coaching staff is well aware of this.

Even if their goal is to remove Chelsea from the Premier League, it will take at least another season.

The Chelsea players certainly understand that.

So even though they once again suppressed Manchester City in advance and successfully won the Premier League title, they did not get carried away in celebration.

Happiness and a faint sense of crisis were at the same time as the Chelsea players were at the same time.

If the whole Chelsea squad had a short-term title goal, they could now celebrate.

But to aim for a third in a row, Chelsea's players will have to think longer and more in the moment.

Mourinho didn't put too much psychological pressure on his players, at least for the moment, he still hopes that his disciples can purely enjoy the joy of winning the championship.

For next season, their coaching staff will prepare in advance for the offseason.

The mentality of the players is relaxed, and the team can go more smoothly and further.

On the night after winning the championship early, Mourinho directly gave the players a day off.

Even though the preparation time is still tight at this stage, Chelsea are about to face the second leg of the Champions League quarter-final against Juventus, but Mourinho still gave it a holiday.

At the celebration banquet that night, the players in the Chelsea team were very happy, and the bonus given by the big boss Abu in advance also made the atmosphere hot.

But after dinner, one of the main players of the Chelsea first team was counted as one, and basically all chose to go home to rest.

On the afternoon of what was supposed to be a good holiday, almost all of the young players in the Chelsea squad consciously returned to the training base for recovery training.

This surprised the Chelsea coaching staff and was replaced by a strong sense of pride!

"What good lads! If we don't have the last laugh this year, I really won't be able to let go! Jose, they deserve all the championship honors! ”

Holland stood in his office and watched the young Chelsea players on the training pitch organise their own group warm-ups, with some excitement in his words.

Jose Mourinho laughed and didn't say anything, he wouldn't be so full of words, after all, any season result in the football world is reasonable, and that's the biggest charm of football.

He's going to do his best to take this group of good lads to the top of football.

No matter what the final outcome of this summer is, at least he will not let himself, let alone his disciples, will leave any regrets.

And he also believes that God and fate will always treat every team that strives to move forward fairly.

You give everything, and what you get in the end is the result you deserve.

"They're going to get the fairest result... Let's get to work! We also have to do our best to prepare as much as possible, come on, continue to review the second leg against Juve......"

At the Cobham training ground, Chelsea's players and coaching staff are preparing for the game.

They, or the giants who have come so far in the Champions League, don't have enough time to prepare.

Two days later, the second leg of the Champions League quarter-finals started again!

This time, Chelsea were the last to play.

On the evening of April 21, after a brutal enduring, Bayern defeated Borussia Dortmund 3-1 over two legs to break into the last four of this season's Champions League.

And Real Madrid did not have any surprises, and finally eliminated Manchester City 5-3 in the two legs, grabbing another place in the last four of this season's Champions League!

On the evening of 22 April, Chelsea and Juventus and Arsenal were joined by Atletico Madrid.

In the last round, Atletico won 1-0 at home to Arsenal, exactly the same score as Chelsea's victory over Juventus.

With Manchester City already out, Chelsea and Arsenal, two teams from London, have become the last in the Premier League.

In this round of competition, Arsenal went to Spain to challenge Atletico Madrid, and it looked like it was more than lucky.

Because Atletico Madrid have never lost at home this season, the Calderón Stadium has buried the bones of Real Madrid and Barcelona in La Liga.

In the Champions League, the giants who went to Calderón Stadium to challenge failed to get half a point here.

Even the most die-hard Arsenal fans will find it difficult to have too much confidence in their own team at this time.

On the other hand, Chelsea, who will host Juventus at Stamford Bridge tonight, will be favoured by too many neutral fans.

At 19:45 in the evening, two Champions League matches started at the same time in London and Madrid.

With the tragic intention of the last fight, Arsenal launched a desperate charge against Atletico Madrid at the Calderón Stadium.

At Stamford Bridge, Chelsea calmly put up a fence and waited for Juventus to crash headlong into their tactical trap.

For Uncle Yu, in this round of competition, he had to be congenitally passive at the tactical level.

Because no matter what kind of opening design he makes, in the end Juventus will have to take the initiative to attack.

With just 90 minutes of play and a goal scored, Juventus will have the confidence to drag Chelsea into extra time.

And in this game, as long as Juventus can score two goals, then Chelsea will fall into complete passivity!

So even if he tries to be consistent, Allegri can't afford to spend time with Chelsea.

This game is pressed out to play, which is more advantageous for Juventus!

The same 442 starting line-up was used as in the previous round, but Juventus played much more aggressively in this game.

Chelsea, on the other hand, have given up their most 433 of the season and switched back to their classic formation of 4231 from last season.

However, Mourinho still did not let Leon retreat to the midfield position, and formed the most prominent defensive sweeping combination with Nemanja Matic.

Nemanja Matic and Kroos dragged on in this game, and Leon remained in midfield.

It's easy to see what the Chelsea coaching staff is thinking about today.

Defending is naturally to defend, but Chelsea will not be passive to the end, and Leon is pressed forward in the position, that is, to play Juventus's counterattack.

In order to better play the tactical effect of rapid advancement on both wings, Mourinho did not even start De Bruyne in this game.

Hazard on the left, Salah on the right, Chelsea can be regarded as full of speed on the two wings.

In the middle is still Ibrahimovic, who is very capable of making the ball.

With this forward and midfield configuration, just thinking about it can probably estimate how much of a counter-attacking threat there is.

Juventus fans were sweating in their hands from the very beginning of the game.

Leon didn't go out of his way to limit Pirlo's play today, so Juventus started quickly in attack.

Compared with the offensive development of the two wings, Juve's strong ability to rush in the middle is obviously stronger.

Alvaro Morata has done a good job of playing the role of a tactical fulcrum.

Carlos Tevez, Vidal and even Paul Pogba at the back could use his tactical cover to better impact the Chelsea backline.

Nemanja Matic has already faced Vidal several times in the last round.

He knows the versatility of the Chilean midfielder and the quality that can burst out in attack.

So he also put more defensive attention on Vidal, who has a considerable range of movement.

Naturally, the defence against Pogba was a little more relaxed, which led to the passivity of Chelsea's defence in the opening stages of the game.

Pogba used his ability to play long shots from the edge of the Chelsea box or send overhead passes to feed Tevez with a cannonball.

That is, the brother and daughter-in-law were in full form today, and they stopped Tevez's close-range tackle in the opening 7 minutes.

Otherwise, Juventus' intention to start the game and equalize as soon as possible may really come true!

Such a passive situation made Mourinho frown.

Fortunately, both Pony and Kroos are very smart midfielders.

The two discussed and quickly adjusted their defensive strategy, Kroos expanded to mark Pogba alone, and if he couldn't prevent it, he directly used personal fouls to block his advance.

Nemanja Matic remained unmoved, taking his position first and interfering with Vidal's advance in the penalty area.

After this adjustment, Juve's strong attack at the beginning of the game was greatly reduced.

Although Li Ang said that he was in the midfield, he was still very careful about the defensive observation of the backfield.

Seeing that Pony and Kroos stabilized the midfield defense, he was not in a hurry to retreat to assist the defense.

In the 12th minute of the first half, his patient wait was finally exchanged for Chelsea's first threatening counter-attack.

Nemanja Matic managed to cut off the ball from Vidal's feet, and Kroos received the ball and sent a long ball to Leon as soon as he received it!

Pirlo decisively returned to defense, Marchisio stepped up, but was knocked out of position by Leon's brutal catch and turn!

After advancing to the front of Juventus' defensive zone 3 with the ball, Leon quickly moved the ball to his own right.

After winning the ball, Salah decisively chose to accelerate down and directly use the speed advantage to shake off Evra!

It was his last cross that was a little less meaningful.

Ibrahimovic couldn't get a point, Leon hadn't managed to get into the Juventus box at this time, and Bonucci, who had picked up the leak, headed the ball back into the midfield.

Chelsea's first threatening counter-attack of the game didn't work, but the counter-attack came out anyway.

Leon also gave Salah a thumbs up of encouragement.

The tempo of the game then returned to Juventus attacking and Chelsea defending.

It was only after a full 10 minutes that Chelsea had their second counter-attack of the game.

This time, Leon took away Pogba and Pirlo in the Juventus midfield, and Kroos was able to successfully hold the ball and plug in!

However, this time on the counter-attack, Kroos did not pass the ball to Salah again, and TK still trusted Hazard more.

Seeing this, Leon decisively moved closer to the left to respond to Hazard's advance.

However, Hazard was also very confident, he accelerated his position on the wing through two non-stop changes of direction, and after getting rid of Lichtsteiner's marking, he decisively cut inside into the Juventus penalty area!

Ibrahimovic also used his running position to open up space for Eden Hazard.

However, in the face of the marking posted by Bonarchi, Hazard did not shoot at the first time, but chose to fake the shot and dunk!

His nimble feints completely shook off Bonucci's defense!

Maybe it was too hasty, Bonucci turned around and struggled to catch up with two steps, and directly chose to intercept the shovel!

This made Hazard, who had already adjusted his pace and was about to volley into the far corner, fall headlong in the Juventus penalty area!

Suddenly, Juve's penalty area became the liveliest area on the playing field.

The Chelsea players raised their arms and shouted at the referee, but the Juventus players waved their hands and signaled Eden Hazard to fake a fall.

Bonucci was still lying on the turf at this time, and he was a little too weak to get up.

The referee on duty did not hesitate too much, and after receiving the linesman's prompt, he blew the whistle and pointed to the penalty spot in the Juventus penalty area, while also showing a yellow card to Bonucci lying on the ground!

"Bonucci made a big mistake! He paid the price for his lack of composure and Chelsea got a really good penalty! ”

The commentators at Sky Sports England almost cheered at this moment.

Leon took the ball from Kroos and strolled to the penalty spot, ignoring the verbal distractions from the Juventus players beside him.

"Boy, I'm staring at you! I know which way you're going to kick, I know! ”

Buffon was still chattering a little, and he didn't seem nervous at all, but was very relaxed and ready to jump left and right.

Leon also ignored the football giant, and after putting the ball on the penalty spot, he took a deep breath and slowly retreated.

The wait wasn't long, and perhaps there weren't any exciting inner monologues in the minds of Leon and Buffon.

All they have is absolute belief in their own strength!

Li Ang did not hesitate to volley vigorously and awarded a penalty, and Buffon also made a save in the direction he judged very firmly!

The two completed a silent and exciting duel at this moment!

Leon kicked the ball towards the right side of the Juve goal, in line with Buffon's save.

But this time, he played from a more tricky angle!

The ball hit the post on the right side of the Juventus goal and was bounced into the net, and Buffon may be just a centimeter away from being able to touch the ball with his fingertips!

One thought of heaven, one thought of hell.

At a time when the whole Chelsea team celebrated the goal.

In the Juventus penalty area, Buffon was angrily slapping the turf, and Chiellini and Lichtsteiner were also with their hands on their waists, full of helplessness!

A few minutes further on, Atletico also scored a successful goal at home to give Arsenal a 2-0 aggregate lead.

Two stadiums, the same scoreline, but for two of London's biggest teams, it's a very different situation at the moment.

Arsenal are drifting away and coming to the end of their Champions League journey this season.

And Chelsea, as the last hope of the Premier League, has also broken into the final Longtan of the Champions League.

(End of chapter)