Chapter 673 Peaceful Winter Break
With the full end of the twenty-fourth talk, the winter break officially ended, and during this winter break, Leeds United also sold Jonnyhausen and bought De Bruyne, which did not attract much attention at all.
In fact, the whole Premier League has not made any big moves this winter. Chelsea have loaned Quaresma from Inter Milan. Liverpool is a bit miserable. They spent a lot of money in the summer to bring in Robbie Keane and returned to Tottenham on loan this winter. Failed to recruit.
Manchester United only introduced a few young players, and these people did not reach the height expected by Ferguson. Instead, Arsenal, which received the least attention, became the protagonist of this winter. They got their wish to introduce the Russian Tsar Arshavin.
I have to say that Arsenal’s recent record has contributed to this transfer to some extent. Arsenal, who drew again in the last round, are in desperate need of a good player to boost morale and change the team’s situation.
However, to say that the team that invested the most this winter is Manchester City, which is dominated by local tyrants. They actually seduced Newcastle United's main goalkeeper Shay, and then bought De Jong from Hamburg and Bella from West Ham United. Rice, and then signed Bridge from Chelsea, and invested nearly 50 million euros in the winter transfer market.
Well, at this time, Bridge didn't know that he was actually green from head to toe, no, it should be green from the inside to the outside, not right, anyway, just one word, green, two words, very green, three words, very green.
Although Li Yi knew that Bridge was green, he couldn't say anything. After all, Li Yi couldn't go and say to Bridge, Hey, buddy, you've been green.
As for other leagues in Europe, now is not the time to pay attention. Besides, Li Yi has no time. After slaughtering West Brom, Leeds United immediately ushered in the FA Cup opponent, Millwall of the Championship.
This is a team that has been in the Championship all the year round, and it is more than enough in the Championship, so Leeds United's bench lineup is enough to win this game.
So this game did not attract much attention, and the score was just like the attention of the game, a 2:0 smoothly entered the next round.
Leeds United's luck is as good as ever. The opponent in the next round is still the team from the British Championship, Sheffield United, which almost ensures that Leeds United will advance another round.
However, Leeds United's attention is obviously no longer in the FA Cup. It can even be said that most of the attention was shifted to the twenty-fifth round of the league game with Millwall, because Leeds United will travel to London to visit Stamford Bridge in this round of the league. Challenge Chelsea on the pitch.
As the only team to beat itself in the first half of the season, Leeds United took a sigh of relief this time and was about to find a place at Stamford Bridge.
Not to mention Chelsea's poor form right now.
In the last four rounds of the league, Chelsea have lost two games. If they push forward, Chelsea will win more and win less.
The Russian oligarch wants to make Chelsea look good, so Scolari was hired this past summer. At the beginning of the season, Scolari's performance was actually very good.
But this is good to build on the foundation of the predecessors, and with Scolari's transformation, the team is playing more and more chaotically. Now let alone beautiful football, even victory is not enough to guarantee.
The Russian oligarchs have some wishful thinking. Chelsea really established the status of world football because of the arrival of Mourinho, and Mourinho also established Chelsea's tactical style.
Perhaps that's why the Russian oligarchs want to change, because Mourinho's imprint is too deep, which is unacceptable for Abramovich as the club president.
The Russian oligarchs are good for Leeds and the Premier League as a whole, because it means they are more likely to take points from Chelsea.
Just like this game, Leeds United scored Chelsea's goal in just six minutes at the beginning of the game. Seeing the former disciple turned to enter the goal with a depressed face, the smile on Li Yi's face could not be suppressed.
Before the game, Li Yi despised Scolari as always. Of course, what Li Yi did was more of a tactical need. He wanted to anger Scolari, and because of Chelsea's recent record problems, Scolari's nerves It was a little tense at first, but after Li Yi made it like this, he couldn't hold back all of a sudden.
This also led to the opening six minutes of Leeds United's attack. Although Li Yi exchanged cards from the system mall again to ensure victory, the goal had nothing to do with the system.
A typical wave of quick counterattacks. After the game started, Chelsea immediately launched an attack, and Scolari, who was on the sidelines, stood directly on the sidelines after shaking hands with Li Yi.
Originally, it was impossible for an experienced coach like Scolari to make such a mistake. However, Li Yi expressed disrespect to Scolari during the first match. Before this match, it was even worse than the last time. , So coupled with the pressure of the recent record, even a coach like Scolari can't hold back.
Besides, although Scolari is not well-known in world football, he has no experience of coaching in Europe. In this respect, he is not even as good as Li Yi.
The ball was cut off by Matic, who directly found Beckham, the England heartthrob found Bell with a long pass, and the Welshman sprinted and scored.
With Bell's goal, the rhythm of the game was completely controlled by Leeds United. Even if Chelsea's counterattack was very violent, in fact Chelsea's counterattack could not threaten Leeds United's goal at all.
On the contrary, Leeds United frequently threatened Chelsea's goal and extended their advantage in the 23rd minute to make the score 2-0.
However, as Leeds United scored the second goal of the game, Scolari on the sidelines finally reacted, but unfortunately, with 0:2 behind, even if he reacted, it would not help. .
Of course, the score didn't help, but the scene became better, but even so, it still couldn't change the ugly face of the Russian oligarch in the stands. Even at the beginning of the second half, Abramovich did not come back.
In fact, Abramovich left at half-time, and although Chelsea's general manager came out to explain after the game, no one believed his explanation.
The media has even begun to predict Scolari's dismissal time, and from the behavior of the media, we can know the result of the match between Leeds United and Chelsea.
3:0, Leeds United defeated Chelsea, the score was 2:0 in the first half, Chelsea made adjustments at halftime in the second half, Drogba replaced almost invisible Quaresma.
Drogba played a big threat to Leeds, but in the end Leeds resisted and expanded the score, completely killing the game.