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Chapter 376 The Battle of the Shooters

A week after playing the first round of the league, Chelsea ushered in the second round of the league.

The opponent is Leicester City.

This is the first time Chelsea played at Stamford Bridge Stadium in the new season, so the team also attaches great importance to it.

Gao Han made a slight adjustment to the game lineup, and Ferreira, the right-back, replaced the English young player Glenn Johnson, who hopes the English young player can play his offensive advantage.

The game went smoothly, and Chelsea scored the first record after just three minutes of the first half.

Deco's angrily shot from the front of the penalty area hit the opponent's defensive player, bounced into the goal and owned by the goal.

Before the first half was over, Chelsea scored another goal by Ronaldinho.

The 2-0 score was finally maintained to the end of the game.

The Blues have control over the ball throughout the game, and the ball possession rate is as high as 61%, but the offense does not have much threat. The two players, Ibrahimovic and Etoo, did not improve much.

On the contrary, it seemed that Gao Han arranged them into a room, which affected their condition.

But Gao Han was very open-minded about this.

When Cantalero discussed the solution with him worriedly, he smirked and threw down, "Let them play by themselves!"

...

A week later, Chelsea challenged Birmingham away.

Former Manchester United captain Steve Bruce's team has always been known for being difficult to play and has made it relatively big moves. It did cause considerable trouble for Chelsea throughout the first half, making it difficult for their passes to be carried out.

Especially their three-52 formation, five players gathered to strangle Chelsea's midfielder, which made the Blues suffer a lot in this regard. In addition, the team's passing and control system has not yet been fully formed, so the scene is very chaotic.

But in the second half, Gao Han adjusted his tactics and actively attacked both wings, especially Ronaldinho's side.

It was Ronaldinho's outstanding performance on the left that frequently created threats and when he dribbled the ball from the left in the 52nd minute, he created a foul by Birmingham midfielder David Dunn, causing the latter to accumulate two yellow cards and be sent off.

After one person was missing, Birmingham was out of power, while Chelsea was like a tiger going down the mountain, with an offensive like a tide.

In the 53rd minute, Ronaldinho took the lead in using a free kick to score directly, scoring for Chelsea's first record.

After that, Birmingham fought stubbornly, but just fifteen minutes later, Bellon scored again, 2-0.

After the overall situation was decided, Gao Han replaced Robben, Joe Cole and Good Johnson one after another. As a result, Good Johnson calmly seized the opportunity in the 82nd minute, received an assist from Deco and scored his first goal of the season.

Just five minutes later, Robben forced a cross from the left to assist Deco to score.

Four to zero, Chelsea won a big away game!

...

On August 30, in the fourth round of the Premier League, Chelsea faced Blackburn at Stamford Bridge.

Twenty-four minutes into the game, Ibrahimovic finally won the first goal of the new season. After receiving the pass from Belon, he used his personal ability to crush his opponent in the penalty area and turned around and hit the goal.

And in the 38th minute, Ronaldinho made a quick shot into the penalty area and rewrites the score to 2-0.

But after the second half of the game, Chelsea frequently wasted opportunities, especially Etoo, who was eager to score goals, actually shot an empty goal, which made the entire Stamford Bridge stadium wail.

Chelsea also quickly learned a lesson for their frequent waste of opportunities. In the 82nd minute, Blackburn rewrites the score to two-to-one with the goal of Australian player Emerton.

Although Chelsea finally won a victory at Stamford Bridge, Etoo's failure to score in four consecutive rounds still caused him to be controversial from fans and the media, especially the single shot.

In contrast, Arsenal also won four games in the first four rounds of the Premier League. The main striker Henry scored one goal in every game, and currently ranked second in the Premier League scorer list with four goals.

Currently the top spot in the Premier League scorer list is Newcastle striker Alan Shearer who scored five goals.

This English local scorer is in a hot state and scores a lot of goals.

Because of this, after the end of this round of the game, many British media hyped up the agreement with Gao Han, and the Independent even posted a title, one Henry equal to Eto Oga Ibrahimovic multiplied by four, mocking and sarcasm of Gao Han.

For the time being, Gao Han had no way to fight back, so he could only endure it temporarily.

But after playing the fourth round of the league, Gao Han went to Monaco without stopping to attend the UEFA annual awards ceremony.

This time he finally got what he wanted, and without any suspense, he won the title of coach of the year.

It would be too unreasonable to lead Atletico Madrid to win the triple crown if he couldn't win this award again.

However, Jose Mourinho, who led Porto to win the League Cup championship, was also nominated. Because they were both from Barcelona, ​​they were hailed as brothers of the same school and have been compared.

But unfortunately, Mourinho failed to attend the awards ceremony due to some special reasons.

...

After two weeks of national team matches, the Premier League rekindled the war.

Chelsea welcomed North London team at Stamford Bridge Stadium, Tottenham Hotspur.

Because many players participated in the national team competition, Gao Han rotated the team's lineup, which resulted in unstable defense. He was defeated by Tottenham Hotspur's striker Canute in the first fifteen minutes of the game.

But ten minutes later, Ronaldinho made a forced breakthrough from the left and made a cross, and Ibrahimovic headed the ball in the penalty area, one-to-one.

Just two minutes later, Ronaldinho cut in from the left and suddenly made a curve ball, breaking the North London team's goal again, reversing the score, 2-1.

After the second half of the game, in the 71st minute, Deco received a straight pass from Ronaldinho, and then drifted past the defender in the penalty area and made a low shot, expanding the score to three-to-one.

When the game reached the 80th minute, Gao Han finally arranged for Cheetah Etoo to play as a substitute.

As a result, this time, Etoo finally lived up to expectations and calmly seized the opportunity in stoppage time. He received a cross from Robben's forced breakthrough on the left and made a close-range shot in front of the goal, four to one.

In the end, Chelsea reversed Tottenham Hotspur four-1 at home and won the London derby.

After the fifth round, Arsenal, who also started the four consecutive victories, finally stopped and ushered in a draw.

But Henry scored his fifth Premier League goal this season.

This also made the British media cheer again.

Because in comparison, Chelsea's two forwards, Ibrahimovic and Eto Oquanga, only scored three goals together.

...

On September 20, in the sixth round of the league, Chelsea challenged Wolves away.

This time, the Blues played away without any mercy and pushed the Wolves into half from the beginning of the game.

Terry, Etoo and Peron scored goals in the first half.

In the 70th minute of the second half, Gao Han substituted Good Johnson to keep his strength in the mid-week League Cup.

As a result, Good Johnson scored two goals in just twenty minutes, expanding the score to five-to-zero.

This also allowed the Icelandic scorer to beat Ibrahimovic and Etoo with three goals, becoming the team's number one scorer.

In this round, Arsenal challenged Manchester United away, and the two sides finally tied with a zero-to-zero draw.

However, many British media reported after the game, calling on Gao Han to support Good Johnson as the Icelandic scorer scored three goals this season, and the efficiency was amazing.

Some media even joked sarcastically: "If Gao Han wants to win a bet with the media, then he should let Good Johnson become the main striker!"

But more of it was that Gao Han continued to trust Ibrahimovic and Etoo, and even dissatisfied with him.

Especially in the middle of the week, Chelsea went to Slovenia to challenge Olympia away. As a result, when they firmly gained the advantage throughout the game and created quite a lot of opportunities, the Blues failed to score for a long time.

In the end, he relied on the goal of Joe Cole, who came on the bench, defeating his opponent by 1-0.

This made Gao Han get angry in the locker room after the game, and even harshly scold Ibrahimovic and Etoo, believing that they should reflect on their performance in the game.

But three days later, I returned to London, returned to Stamford Bridge, and welcomed Aston Villa.

As a result, Chelsea's forward offense has not improved much.

Finally, in the 88th minute of the second half, Good Johnson saved the team again, one to zero, and Chelsea saved the victory again.

But this time, Gao Han did not get angry, but calmly said a harsh word in the locker room.

"I want to rethink whether all players deserve this starting qualification."

This simple sentence seemed to have a thunder sounded in the locker room.

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Although Chelsea performed well and badly, at least it continued Gao Han's usual outstanding record, with seven consecutive victories at the beginning, allowing the Blues to undisputedly take the lead in the Premier League standings.

Arsenal is ranked second.

The Gunners' record this season is also quite good, winning five wins and two draws in seven games, and scored seventeen points.

Manchester United is temporarily ranked third, winning six wins and one draw in seven games, and scored sixteen points.

Steve Bruce's Birmingham ranked fourth, and they scored fourteen points.

Next are Manchester City and Southampton with 12 points, and Liverpool and Fulham with 11 points.

What is more surprising is that the Magpie Newcastle, Robson's team is temporarily ranked 16th, and the results are a bit bad.

Tottenham Hotspur and Leeds United were even worse, ranking 18th and 19th respectively.

In the Premier League scorer list, Van Nistrui tied for the top spot in the Premier League scorer list with seven goals with a hat-trick in this round. Also scoring seven goals were Arsenal's Henry and Newcastle's Hiller.

Liverpool's Irving scored six goals, tied with Bolton's Anelka and Southampton's James Beatty.

On the contrary, before the season, Ibrahimovic and Etoo, who were hyped up by Gao Han, have scored two goals each so far. Compared with the First Army, the gap is still quite obvious.

This also made the British media generally ignore Chelsea's impressive record and instead hype the scorer's battle.

In particular, the Independent even scored a 7-2 red letter on the front page sidebar to demonstrate their support for Henry, their satirical and sarcasm for Gao Han.

At the same time, news about supporting Good Johnson and even introducing Shevchenko during the winter break has become noisy again.

A week later, Chelsea challenged Middlesbrough away, Gao Han finally made a decision to respond to public opinion, arranging Icelandic striker Good Johnson to start, while Ibrahimovic and Etoo didn't even make the roster.

As a result, the Icelandic scorer scored a goal, helping Chelsea beat Middlesbrough 2-0 away.
Chapter completed!
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