Super Marshal

The 2-0 home defeat of Manchester United allowed Chelsea to defend the league leader's position once again, and it also triggered a new round of hype in the British media.

Especially in this game, Gao Han rotated the team's midfielder and let Joe Cole replace Deco in the starting lineup. The result was very good, and the overall strength did not decline at all, which surprised all the British media and appreciation.

The British Times put a photo of Gao Han raising his fists after the game on its front page cover, and attached a powerful headline, Insurgents' Revolutionary Manifesto!

The report commented that Manchester United has always been regarded as a role model for the Premier League. It has won the championship eight times in ten years, and its resume is very amazing.

But Chelsea this season is like a revolutionary. Gao Han not only brought more advanced technical and tactical play, but also steadily surpassed the traditional giants Manchester United and Arsenal in terms of performance.

In the two scenes of suppression against the traditional giants, Chelsea handed over a nearly perfect answer sheet, attracting more and more fans and hearts to themselves, and made all fans who are tired of the dull pattern of the Premier League very happy. for excitement.

In the strong dialogue, Gao Han told everyone with iron facts that Chelsea will completely subvert the traditional situation of the Premier League.

At the same time, the Times also published a sentence Gao Han said at the post-match press conference.

"Beating Manchester United is more meaningful than leading the standings, because in the Premier League, everyone knows what it means to beat Manchester United. Although the league has not yet been halfway through, this game will have a profound impact on the Premier League this season."

But the Times also published Ferguson's counterattack in the post-match press conference.

"It's just entered December. Yes, Chelsea have a clear lead, but I think it's too early to talk about winning the championship. If they can still maintain their current lead in March next year, then I will consider admitting that they have the strength to win the championship."

According to the analysis of The Times, Ferguson's meaning is obvious. The winter break is a problem for all Premier League teams.

Chelsea want to win the championship, yes, but they have to pass the devil's schedule during the winter break first.

Gao Han responded in a low-key manner to this. It is meaningless to say more, the key is to prove it with actual results.

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After the fourteenth round of the Premier League, Chelsea still leads the standings, followed by Arsenal and Manchester United. It is basically difficult for other teams to shake the positions of these three teams.

In this round, Arsenal drew 0-0 at home with Fulham, and Henry once again encountered a scoring drought.

Throughout the entire game, the Gunners' performance was indeed sluggish, and they did not perform too eye-catchingly.

On the contrary, Manchester United, although they lost on the court, they ushered in a bumper harvest off the court.

On the second day after playing Chelsea, the Red Devils officially announced that they had signed a new sponsorship contract with sponsor Vodafone, with a sponsorship fee of up to 40 million pounds, which is the largest sponsorship fee in the history of the Premier League.

The Red Devils Manchester United once again defended their status as the most successful club in Europe, allowing everyone to see the commercial operation capabilities of the Red Devils empire.

On the same day, Manchester United CEO David Gill also announced that Malcolm Glazer, a wealthy American, had further increased his stake in the club. Jill denied it, thinking it was just an ordinary transaction.

Both pieces of news have completely covered up Manchester United's defeat on the pitch, making everyone clearly aware that the failure on the pitch cannot hinder Manchester United's success off the pitch. The Red Devils Manchester United are still the most successful club in European football.

Three days after finishing the fourteenth round, Chelsea ushered in the round of 16 knockout round of the League Cup and played an away game against Reading in League One.

The style of this team is relatively rough, but Gao Han still arranged young players and a substitute lineup to play, and finally defeated the opponent 3-0 in the away game, and all three goals occurred in the second half.

On the weekend, in the fifteenth round of the Premier League, Chelsea went north to challenge Leeds United away.

This young guard who once swept Europa in the past is currently ranked at the bottom and its performance is quite sluggish.

Chelsea almost effortless, away 2 to 0 victory over opponents, Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Eto'o scored successively.

Manchester United quickly got out of the shadow of losing at Stamford Bridge, defeating Aston Villa 4-0 at home.

Arsenal continued to suffer a draw, drawing away to Leicester City 1-1, Henry continued to score shortage.

Newcastle drew with Liverpool 1-1 at home in this round. Center Shearer scored again and completely counterattacked Henry and became the top scorer.

A week later, in the 16th round of the Premier League, Chelsea played at Stamford Bridge and beat Bolton 2-0 cleanly. Ibrahimovic and John Terry scored successively.

Manchester United defeated Manchester City 3-1 at home and won the Manchester derby.

Arsenal finally got out of the embarrassment of consecutive victories, a small victory over Blackburn 1-0, and the goal was Bergkamp.

In the middle of the week, Chelsea went north to Birmingham to challenge Aston Villa in an away game. This is the knockout round of the League Cup quarter-finals.

The Blues, still playing with substitutes and teenagers, conceded a goal in the away game, but then scored two goals in a row, reversed Aston Villa without any risk, and advanced to the semi-finals 2-1.

Also in the top four are Arsenal, Middlesbrough and Bolton.

On the weekend, the seventeenth round of the Premier League, the last round before Christmas, Chelsea challenged Fulham away.

Gao Han's team encountered a tenacious sniper attack from the same city team. Although they had the advantage in the first hour, they still couldn't find a way to break through the Fulham goal. A sneak attack by To'o gave Fulham a 1-0 victory.

With the goal of this game, Eto'o also scored 11 goals in the Premier League this season, only one step away from Henry's 12 goals.

The Gunners drew with Bolton one-to-one this round, and Henry's scoring drought continues.

After this round, Alan Shearer ranked first in the scorer list with 15 league goals, Manchester United's Ruud van Nistelrooy scored 13 goals, ranking second, Henry scored 12 goals Ranked third, Eto'o scored eleven goals and ranked fourth.

Ibrahimovic scored eight goals, tied with three other players including Owen.

After the seventeenth round, it was Christmas.

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Since last year, most of the European football players have started to tighten their purse strings, and have to worry about every penny. Even the annual Christmas carnival has shrunk sharply, or even canceled it outright.

According to Premier League tradition, in order to avoid the Christmas devil's schedule, the Christmas party should be held in advance.

But I don’t know if it’s because the management took over the team for the first time, resulting in lack of experience in this area. There was no movement in this area. It was not until before Christmas that the team was notified temporarily that there would be no party this year.

This made everyone in Harrington feel disappointed.

If the usual results are not satisfactory and financial difficulties, it’s okay not to hold the event, but now they are the leaders of the Premier League, and they are backed by the rich and powerful Russian boss.

At the very least, Tottenham Hotspur in North London has already done it, and Arsenal also held a Christmas dinner in advance. Only Chelsea has nothing, deserted, and the players are full of disappointment.

According to Gao Han's original arrangement, he was going to invite the coaching staff and their families to have a Christmas dinner. After all, they have helped him a lot in the past few years.

But now, when he saw that the players were missing, he simply waved his hand and said that he had a holiday on Christmas day, and invited all the players, his family and children to his Christmas party in advance.

As for the location, it was arranged in a newly opened high-end Chinese restaurant in the south of Hyde Park.

Gao Han's invitation was immediately appreciated by all the players. After receiving the invitation text message, everyone came to this high-end Chinese restaurant on time the next day, Christmas Day, to attend the head coach's Christmas party.

At first, they didn't feel anything, but when they heard the waiter in the store politely call Gao Han the boss, and vacated the entire second floor for them to arrange a Christmas party, they suddenly realized it.

It turns out that this Chinese restaurant is named after HAN, who is in the cold.

After being discovered, Gao Han is not afraid to admit honestly that he is indeed one of the owners of this Chinese restaurant, and his partner is a top celebrity chef of a very famous chain restaurant company in China. He is very familiar with Lin Xia's family and has always been interested in himself. When starting a business, Gao Han had a good impression of him, and he was very easy to talk to, so he voted and let him use his name.

But the Chinese translation is, Han.

This restaurant is located in the south of Hyde Park. The environment is very good. The decoration design is also from domestic famous artists. It has a traditional Chinese flavor and a high style. Even the furnishings, tables, chairs and tableware are traditional Chinese style, but also added a lot The atmosphere of western food, such as the bar counter and open kitchen, seems to be a combination of Chinese and Western.

For Gao Han, investing in a restaurant is nothing, and he also cares about whether he can make money, so he doesn't care about the business, basically he leaves it to his friends and partners to take care of it, even if there is something, it is Lin Xia come and see.

The Chinese restaurant has just opened not long ago, and the business is relatively mediocre. In addition to Christmas, there are relatively few customers.

But the alpine treat, Chelsea held a Christmas party, naturally attracted the follow-up of British media reporters.

They all know that there will always be some things happening at the Christmas party of the Premier League every year, and there are even some explosive scandals.

Gao Han saw that they had worked hard, and kept squatting outside the gate of the restaurant, so he was so bold that he asked the waiter of the hotel to invite them all in and treat them to a sumptuous dinner.

Inviting reporters to participate in such an aboveboard manner made the reporters with ulterior motives a little ashamed, and they were embarrassed to dig any more inside information. In fact, there was really nothing exciting to shoot.

The only thing that caught the audience's attention was Gao Han's Christmas greetings. He encouraged all Chelsea players to guard against arrogance and impetuosity, and make persistent efforts. Win more cup championships.

"Not only this season, but also next season, as well as the Champions League, all of us work together and forge ahead in unity. I firmly believe that no one can stop us!"

Gao Han's rhetoric also won the unanimous support and response of most of the players in the audience.

In the end, the Chelsea players also asked a familiar reporter to take a group photo for them. Everyone surrounded Gao Han in the middle, showing the unity atmosphere within the team.

Gao Han even joked that he wanted to enlarge this photo and hang it on the wall of his office.

And this photo also appeared in major British newspapers.