Super Marshal

January 21, Wednesday, the first leg of the League Cup semi-final.

Chelsea away to Bolton.

As soon as the game started, the highly motivated Blues turned their backs and launched a frenzied press on Bolton.

In just one minute of the opening, Lampard completed the cooperation with Good Johnson after stealing the ball in the frontcourt, and volleyed near the penalty spot, opening the scoring for Chelsea and opening the door to victory.

This goal completely stunned the fans of the home team, and surprised all the media reporters who followed Chelsea to the away game, but what shocked them even more was that after the goal, Lampard turned around. He rushed to the sidelines and hugged the head coach Gao Han, the two seemed to be very close.

Not only all the fans and reporters at the scene, but even the audience in front of the TV were shocked.

Didn't the media keep saying that Lampard was at odds with Gao Han and wanted to leave the team?

Even his agent frequently contacted other teams, especially Manchester United, and even Ferguson himself said the words of welcome to Lampard, but what is the situation now?

But on the court, Chelsea ignored the thoughts of others and still suppressed Bolton.

In the ninth minute, Parker made another move, still attacking from the back row, and scored a long shot from the outside of the penalty area.

With two goals in a row, Chelsea's state is amazing.

Just eight minutes later, Goodjohnson headed home from Robben's cross from the left to give Chelsea their third goal of the game.

In just 17 minutes, they scored three goals in a row. Chelsea's offensive shocked everyone, even the commentator on the TV station exclaimed, even the team composed of substitutes and youth players Attack power, who else can resist such a domineering Chelsea?

Perhaps after the strong attack, Chelsea slackened a bit, and it didn't take long for Bolton to take advantage of Okocha's goal to pull back a goal.

But after the second half, the Blues continued to suppress their opponents, and in the 74th and 80th minutes, with the goals of Cesc Fabregas and Lampard, they defeated Bolton 5-1 and basically advanced to the final ahead of schedule.

At the press conference after the game, Gao Han highly affirmed the performance of the players in this game, especially Lampard, who was elected as the best player in the game again, gave a very high evaluation and praised England by name in public midfield.

What made the media reporters rush to have fun is that Lampard also praised the head coach Gao Han when he was interviewed by acquainted reporters after the game. The best coach ever.

This also made media reporters aware of Chelsea's change.

Sure enough, two days after the semi-final of the League Cup, Lampard's agent said in an interview with the media that all rumors about Lampard's transfer were false news, and Lampard was loyal to Chelsea. Considered leaving the team.

Chelsea officials also publicly stated that Lampard is a vital member of the team and the team will not accept any offer from the team. contract negotiation.

This statement from both sides can basically determine that Lampard will continue to stay at Chelsea.

Many teams, including Manchester United, who intend to poach corners, are disappointed.

Perhaps stimulated by the promise to renew the contract, just one day later, in the FA Cup knockout round of 32, Lampard's scoring state continued to flourish, and he scored twice again to help the team away A five-to-zero victory over Scarborough.

This obscure team is the biggest dark horse so far in this FA Cup. It comes from the amateur league. It is the only amateur team that reached the top 32, but it was slaughtered by Chelsea.

The same performance was Wenger's Arsenal.

Falling too far behind Chelsea in the league, Wenger has obviously increased his emphasis on the League Cup and the FA Cup. It's Middlesbrough.

In other words, you will encounter Middlesbrough three times in a week.

In the previous semi-finals of the League Cup, Arsenal encountered a tenacious sniper from Middlesbrough, who played with their main force, and won a small victory at home. However, in the FA Cup, which was also a home game, Arsenal was Four to one victory.

It is not difficult to see from the two games that Middlesbrough concentrated all their energy in the League Cup and gave up the FA Cup.

Facts have proved that Middlesbrough did cause considerable trouble for Arsenal in the semi-finals of the second round of the League Cup. Especially in the first half, Middlesbrough's home court advantage was very obvious.

Even in stoppage time in the first half, Zenden created a threat from the wing and created chaos in the penalty area. Arsenal's veteran central defender Keown was sent off with a red card, leaving Arsenal with one less man to fight in the entire second half.

The subsequent game was very logical. Middlesbrough scored two goals in the 69th and 77th minutes.

But just when everyone thought that Middlesbrough would enter the final, Wenger made a substitution adjustment at a critical moment. The Spanish teenager Reyes introduced during the winter break took advantage of a counterattack and scored a crucial goal. , dragging the game into overtime.

However, both sides failed to perform very well in the overtime game. Arsenal, who had one less man to fight, was forced to defend and counterattack, and finally kept the score to the end. With the number of away goals, they eliminated Middlesbrough and successfully Advance to the final.

The final is scheduled to be held on the last Sunday of February, the 29th, at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, which is also the venue for the England Cup final since Wembley Stadium was renovated.

Chelsea and Arsenal both joined the League Cup final, which also brought this cup, which was not valued by people, back to the vision of Premier League fans all over the world.

But neither Gao Han nor Wenger has the leisure time to pay attention to this final, because three days after the second round of the semi-final, the Premier League ushered in the twenty-third round.

Chelsea, who had just defeated Bolton 2-0 at home in the second leg of the Carabao Cup semi-final, returned to the Premier League with unabated offensive power and beat Blackburn away 3-0 with all their main players.

Eto'o scored twice and Zlatan Ibrahimovic added a goal.

But the good times didn't last long, and in another game that followed, Arsenal defeated Manchester City 2-1 at home, and Henry scored the team's second goal.

As a result, in the Premier League scorer list, Henry continued to lead with 18 goals, Eto'o ranked second with 17 goals, Shearer ranked third with 16 goals, Van Nistelrooy Fifteen goals ranked fourth, Ibrahimovic and Saha, who had just moved to Manchester United, both scored 14 goals, tied for fifth.

Compared with the best in the league, the brilliant scorer list has become the focus of media reporters.

Especially the pre-season bet between Gao Han and the media reporters made the media in England even more anxious.

Seeing Eto'o approaching Henry step by step, Ibrahimovic is also chasing after him, which makes the English media worry, for fear that if they lose, they will publish an apology in the newspaper.

A week later, in the twenty-fourth round of the Premier League, Chelsea beat Charlton 2-0 at home. Edwin van der Sar performed very well.

Eto'o and Zlatan Ibrahimovic's scoring momentum continued unabated and continued to score in double figures.

In this round, Arsenal beat Wolves 3-1 away, and Henry also scored a goal, continuing to suppress Eto'o in the scorer list.

But Manchester United beat Everton 4-3 away.

With a three-goal lead, Ferguson's team was pulled by Moyes' team for three consecutive goals, and then relying on Ruud van Nistelrooy's lore goal, they finally narrowly beat Everton.

Van Nistelrooy and Saha both scored twice.

This also made the media reporters after the game revel, because with this goal, Ruud van Nistelrooy once again caught up with Henry and Eto'o with 17 goals, and the three only had one goal each other gap.

But Saha tied Alan Shearer with 16 goals and stepped on Ibrahimovic, who scored 15 goals.

Therefore, after this round of competition, the British media praised Manchester United, thinking that the Red Devils have two major strikers and their attack power is better than Chelsea.

But Gao Han scoffed at this kind of remarks, thinking that it was a fantasy of having fun after losing the league.

"Saha's goal, at least half of the credit should belong to Fulham, but Eto'o and Zlatan Ibrahimovic's goals were all scored by Chelsea. They are the well-deserved best striker combination in the Premier League. "

"I can understand some people's thoughts, they want to hit me and my players, but I want to say, we will not be fooled, I can guarantee that they will score more goals!"

Facts have proved that Gao Han's words are not exaggerated at all.

Three days after playing Charlton, Chelsea ushered in the twenty-fifth round of the Premier League. Chelsea defeated Portsmouth 2-0 away.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Eto'o each scored a goal.

But in this round, Henry scored twice to help Arsenal beat Southampton 2-0.

Ruud van Nistelrooy also scored a goal, but Manchester United lost 2-3 at home to Middlesbrough.

Judging from the current situation in the Premier League, Chelsea has taken the lead and has basically won the league championship. Arsenal continues to secure the second position in the league, and Manchester United has gradually fallen to third in the league.

There is basically no suspense for the top three teams, only fourth in the league, including Liverpool, Newcastle, Birmingham, Charlton, Fulham and Bolton, and even teams such as Tottenham Hotspur and Aston Villa. Opportunity, the competition is fierce.

In the scorer list, Henry scored 21 goals, with a two-goal advantage, suppressing Eto'o who scored 19 goals.

Ruud van Nistelrooy is third with 18 goals.

Although Saha started this round, he failed to score. Instead, Zlatan Ibrahimovic scored a goal and finally caught up. Together with Alan Shearer, they both scored 16 league goals, ranking first. ranked fourth.

Veteran Alan Shearer scored a lot of goals before the winter break, but his state has plummeted after the winter break. The current situation does not look very optimistic.

On the contrary, Henry, Ruud van Nistelrooy, Eto'o and Ibrahimovic have a very stable goal momentum.

But for British media reporters, they don't care about other things, but they are all focused on the bet with Gao Han.

In their view, as long as Henry can win the top scorer, even if Gao Han leads Chelsea to the championship, he will lose.

As a result, everyone turned their attention to the twenty-sixth round of the Premier League.

After playing twenty-five rounds, the national team training camp was ushered in, and then a heavy key battle was ushered in.

Chelsea vs Arsenal!