The mentality of the Manchester City players is really falling apart at this moment.

After a season of hard work, he was ahead of most of the league time of his direct rivals, but in the end he fell to the last step.

Even though many of the Manchester City players were mentally prepared before the game, they still failed to accept the harsh reality when the moment actually came.

The people's hearts are confused, they are scattered, and no matter how well the tactics are arranged, they will not be implemented.

But Pep Guardiola is not willing to criticize his disciples at this time.

He sat in the coach's box, staring at the blank Manchester City players in the stadium, with a wry smile on the corner of his mouth.

I did my best.

Whether it's him, the rest of his coaching staff or all the players in Manchester City's first-team squad, they have done their best to compete with Chelsea for the league title this season.

It's a shame to be at the last step, but as City's current helmsman, Pep Guardiola can't afford to spend as much time grieving as his protégés.

He can only force himself to accept the facts, and keep cheering himself up in his heart, so as not to lose the confidence to continue to challenge Chelsea.

Besides, the league is not really over yet, and even if Manchester City has lost the initiative to win the league, they still have a chance to turn the tables in theory......

After comforting himself, Pep Guardiola walked to the sidelines and gestured to the City players on the pitch to relax and keep their heads level.

At this time, he didn't have any thoughts of expecting his players to burst out and equalize.

He just hopes that in this way, the disciples can unload their psychological baggage and finish this game normally.

There are still a few league games to come, and as long as Chelsea don't win streaks to the title, they can't afford to give up hope.

Mental stability and fitness are now crucial for City.

After seeing Guardiola's gestures many times, the mood of many Manchester City players on the field gradually stabilized.

However, watching Chelsea quickly return to the half-time after the celebration, Manchester City's frontcourt players really couldn't lift up the attacking confidence.

With little time left in the final game, regular time quickly came to an end as all Blues supporters watched on expectantly.

As soon as the two minutes of stoppage time arrived, the referee on duty decisively blew the whistle for the end of the game!

The 34th round of the Premier League, the most popular battle for fans, has also come to an end.

Chelsea beat Manchester City twice this season!

Even after falling behind their direct rivals midway through the season, Chelsea delivered near-perfect points in two of the season's most important league games, living up to the expectations of their supporters.

Victories in these two 'six-point battles' also played a decisive role in cementing Chelsea at the top of the league table at the end of the season.

With five more league games to play in the repertoire, Chelsea are currently just three points ahead of Manchester City, but the whole Chelsea squad are now confident of winning the league title.

After the game, Li Ang also led his teammates to applaud the fans at home many times to express his gratitude.

This season, as last season, Chelsea are unbeaten at home.

The hard work of the coaches and players at home is important and the die-hard Chelsea fans at home play a very important role.

They have created the frenetic atmosphere at home for Chelsea in recent seasons, putting a huge psychological strain on every player who comes to challenge them.

Of course, they gave all the Chelsea players plenty of encouragement and confidence!

In the next round of the Premier League, these hardcore Blues fans will still be in the stands at Stamford Bridge to play alongside the Chelsea players.

In his post-match interview, Leon praised his supporters' flawless performance and unabashedly appealed to the Blues fans to continue to "entertain" Tottenham in the next game.

After his remarks were reported by various British media, it naturally caused a lot of discussion among the Premier League fan base.

But regardless of what fans of other teams think of Leon's remarks, at least fans of the big teams in the London region are very fond of seeing Leon scold Tottenham.

As the "public enemy" of almost all Premier League teams in the London Region, Tottenham's image is really not good in the hearts of these supporters.

However, under Pochettino's leadership, Tottenham's fighting power has soared rapidly this season, and they are now fifth in the Premier League, just two points away from fourth-placed Arsenal.

So even now even if Arsenal face their local rivals Tottenham, they are not absolutely confident that they can win 100 per cent.

The rest of the Premier League teams are even less powerful than Tottenham.

Their supporters were not confident in the victory over Tottenham, but they were confident in Chelsea and would love to see Chelsea deflating Tottenham at home.

Tottenham Hotspur fans are of course very dissatisfied with the status quo of public opinion, and they have also started to fight back on the Internet in advance.

But Tottenham's coaches and players were rather low-key before the game.

Tottenham are now in a crucial stage in the race for the top four in the league and have little hope of winning against Chelsea, but if they can pick up a point at Chelsea's home stadium, they will earn it.

Therefore, the whole Tottenham team did not want to "provoke" Chelsea at this crucial moment of grabbing points.

If Chelsea are forced to go all out despite the Champions League and go all out to fight them, then they will really lose more than they have to lose.

I don't know if the low-key overtures of the whole Tottenham team really played a role.

After a five-day break for Manchester City, Mourinho's starting 18-man squad for the pre-match press conference was really full of a large number of team substitutes.

This is definitely good news for Tottenham, with Mauricio Pochettino even going so far as to say in his pre-match press conference that he wished Chelsea the best of luck in the Champions League semi-finals.

Of course, if you read it further, Pochettino's meaning is also obvious, that is, he hopes that Chelsea can focus more on the upcoming Champions League semi-finals, and not chase after Tottenham.

As for Mourinho's final selection plan, several major English sports media have also issued articles expressing their understanding.

The Champions League semi-final against Atletico Madrid is destined to be two fierce battles, and Chelsea will naturally need to make trade-offs in the league and not allow a few key players to consume too much energy.

Therefore, rotation is very necessary for Chelsea, and if Mourinho chooses not to rotate in this game, then these British media may have more complaints.

On the afternoon of April 23, with some anticipation, the whole Tottenham team arrived at Stamford Bridge.

Naturally, the warm-up Tottenham players at this stadium could only receive a large number of boos.

Leon is not hostile to the current group of Tottenham players, on the contrary, there are many old friends with whom he has a good relationship.

But as a player who has been on a transfer to Chelsea for three seasons, Leon certainly doesn't have a good impression of Tottenham as a team.

Chat with old friends before the game and say hello is the way it should be.

But after the game officially started, Li Ang also put his personal friendship aside, and gave Eriksen, the core of Tottenham's organization, a hard blow at the defensive end at the beginning!

His decisive tackle disrupted Tottenham's attacking possession and tipped Eriksen straight onto the turf.

If you watch the slow-motion replay, fans can clearly see that Li Ang did not actually foul.

But his tackle was still a little too big, and Eriksen looked like he had fallen badly, so the referee on duty still decisively blew for Leon's foul.

Leon shrugged his shoulders, showed his innocence and simply settled on the defensive end.

He didn't really care if the referee blew his foul, and he gave Tottenham a dismissal in the opening stage of the game, so that Tottenham's attacking players had palpitations at the offensive end, which is what he cares more about.

In the past, such dirty work was basically done by Nemanja Matic, but today Brother Ma rested directly at home, so Li Ang, who started to play in the back, could only return to his old business.

At present, the effect of Li Ang's dismount is still very prominent, and after Eriksen was heavy, Sun Xingmin and Lamela also had some fears about Li Ang.

Tottenham's two wingers also opted for more passing in attack, missing the usual threat of breakaways.

Pochettino was so frustrated by this scene that he even had to go to the sidelines in the first five minutes of the game and shout to his disciples to be more active in getting the ball.

Fortunately, Tottenham Hotspur also has an organization at the back of the core Dembele, the Belgian midfielder is very versatile, and he is very good at participating in the attack and passing after taking the ball.

So when Eriksen doesn't play well, he can take over the playmaking burden on Eriksen's shoulders.

The technical superiority of Tottenham's two full-backs is enough to support Tottenham to play an efficient attacking threat with a relatively simple two-wing strategy.

After Son Heung-min and Lamela retracted their positions at the moment and played more of a role in receiving the ball, Danny Rose and Kyle Walker naturally got more opportunities to get forward on the wings.

Tottenham's wing-back's frequent forward and bottom-up play is also one of their regular attacking routines this season.

Against teams in the lower middle of the Premier League, they are often quick to open up the ground on both flanks and pose a threat.

But today, against Chelsea, the most efficient defender in the Premier League, Tottenham's full-back style of play is more mediocre.

In the final analysis, it was because Chelsea's two full-backs, Cesar Azpilicueta and Karas, who started today, were strong enough to defend themselves.

Even if Leon and another defender, Van Kingkel, were unable to cover the game at the first time, Cesar Azpilicueta and Kalas were able to gain the upper hand in a one-on-one individual battle.

Danny Ross and Kyle Walker were able to cut in on the offensive end, but there were still too few chances for them to successfully deliver crosses.

Once they were entangled by Chelsea's full-backs, they basically had to choose to pass the ball back.

In the first 15 minutes of the game, Chelsea, who rotated a large number of key players, focused more on defending to test Tottenham's attacking strength today.

However, when it was discovered that Tottenham's attacking players were in average form today, Chelsea's quick counter-attacks gradually became threatening.

The delay of Leon and Van Ginkel was enough to ensure that Chelsea had enough possession in central midfield.

And De Bruyne, who started in the No. 10 position today, had a kick in the counterattack that turned decay into a magical passing ability.

The attacking combination of Salah and Gnabry on the flanks was indeed not as efficient as Hazard and De Bruyne who started in terms of attacking opportunities.

But if you can't stand them, you will get enough counter-attacking balls!

In front of the Tottenham Hotspur penalty area, there is also a Llorente who can hold the ball steadily to play with them, not to mention, they have no more opportunities to break through with the ball and receive the ball and shoot.

The Chelsea crowd at Stamford Bridge also cheered and applauded Mohamed Salah and Grabry.

With the continuous encouragement of the fans, the breakthrough performance of the two is getting better and better, and they are close to stacking opportunities to further create a shooting threat.

And when the game reached the 25th minute of the first half, Li Ang, who had honestly defended more than half of the first half, also suddenly took the ball and inserted it to participate in the attack!

He used a change of direction near the top of his own center circle to get past Eriksen first.

However, in the face of Dembele's interception in the premise position, Leon did not continue to advance with the ball, but distributed the ball to Loftus-Cheek, who also stepped forward to participate in the attack.

Loftus-Cheek, who was previously sounded the alarm by Lao Mu again, now does not dare to stick to the ball, and strides forward with the ball after getting the ball.

Thanks to the fact that Leon had previously attracted the attention of a large number of Tottenham midfielders, Loftus-Cheek was not marked and intercepted in the process of advancement.

In the end, Loftus-Cheek managed to pass the ball to Mohamed Salah, who had been waiting on the flank, at the edge of the third.

The Egyptian winger didn't do any feints after getting the ball, he just led the ball and burst out, and passed Danny Ross who was in and out of the foot!

This time, before he could reach the bottom line with the ball, Salah sent a cross with a backfoot with a roundabout.

Llorente ran in front of the goal to take away Tottenham centre-back Vertonghen, and Leon, who stepped forward, stopped the ball with his chest at the edge of the Tottenham penalty area!

Tottenham's other centre-back, Alderweireld, rushed out to intercept, but Leon then split the ball to the left!

Gnabry came out from the wing and took the ball straight into the Tottenham penalty area, but Kyle Walker couldn't keep an eye on him this time!

The young German winger was very confident and hit the goal with his feet after a slight adjustment!

He opted for a direct volley into the far corner of the goal.

Tottenham goalkeeper Lloris's lack of reach was revealed again when he couldn't save Gnabry's shot!

And in the end, the ball almost grazed the inside of Tottenham's far post and rolled into the goal!

Gnabry, who had a rare start and also scored, was so excited that he looked like he wanted to take off his shirt in celebration.

But the sharp-eyed Leon hugged the silly boy first to avoid him from receiving a yellow card, and then Leon pushed him to the corner flag area and motioned him to ask the fans for cheers!

The Stamford Bridge home fans erupted in cheers that swept the stadium!

For the Chelsea players, it was a natural sound, but for the Tottenham players, the cheers were a little too terrifying!

The commentator of Sky Sports England looked at the frenzied atmosphere at Chelsea's home stadium at this moment, and also subconsciously blurted out:

"Welcome to the Hell of West London!"

(End of chapter)