On the night of November 4, Rome, Italy.
There is a fierce Champions League group match in the Olympic Stadium. The two sides are the home team red wolves Roma and the visiting team blue team Chelsea. This is also a focus game in group A of the Champions League group match.
Before this round, the two teams played three games each, with two wins and one draw for Chelsea and one win and one draw for Roma, three points behind Chelsea and ranking second in the group stage.
Both teams are the top favourites in group A.
The blues invested a lot of money in this summer, successively from Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid, to create the high price of the standard signings Robinho and Arshavin, detonated the whole summer transfer market in Europe.
Coach Rijkaard is also full of confidence and ambitious to return to his peak in Barcelona.
In this game, Rijkaard''s opening tactics were mainly passing and controlling. On the attack line, Robinho, Anelka and Arshavin were combined. Drogba took turns on the bench.
Midfield is out of Mikel, Lampard and Joe Cole''s combination.
This is also from the beginning to show that the attitude of Chelsea to control the ball.
From the beginning of the game, Chelsea patiently played with the home team with more skillful passing and control, and got a corner in the first five minutes, but failed to create a threat.
After that, the blues played very smoothly, with a clear advantage in passing and controlling. Robinho and Arshavin from the left and right flanks were full of attack power, and their combination with Anelka was also sharp. They almost beat Roma in the half court and occupied the advantage.
But in the 34th minute, a foul in the middle and back court gave Roma a free kick in the front court.
The red wolves quickly sent out a free kick, Totti scored on the right, Cicinho got the ball and passed it back to the middle. After that, he inserted the defenceless Panucci small restricted area in the back row to score the goal, which opened the record for Roma.
But this goal completely angered Chelsea, the blues began to launch a more fierce attack, threatening the goal of Roma again and again, but always with the goal margin.
The two sides finished the first half with a score of 1-0.
After Yi Bian played again in the second half, Chelsea still controlled the situation and Lampard made the first shot.
But very soon, Roma seized an opportunity, played a counterattack, retreated the defense, Vucinic inserted in the back row, received a pass from his teammates in the front of the restricted area, vigorously volleyed, the ball with a sharp arrow into the top left corner, 2-0.
Two goals behind, Chelsea play more anxious crazy, and soon Rome seized another opportunity.
Vucinic, who had an eye-catching performance in this game, retreated to defend the ball. After successfully intercepting the ball, he deliberately slowed down and separated from Mikel. After receiving the ball, he suddenly started again. He threw Mikel away with one lunge and made a long-distance attack of nearly 70 meters. Then he calmly put the ball into the goal and staged a double goal, 3-0.
Three goals, completely hit the spirit of Rome.
Spalletti''s 442 formation also completely activated Vucinic.
However, the poor performance of Chelsea''s winning and not scoring made all the fans who followed the team away feel a little embarrassed.
Club owner Abramovich, assistant granovskia and chief executive Peter Kenyon are all sitting in the stands, looking very serious, especially the Russians, who can not hide their loss and even anger.
"More than 100 million euros. I spent more than 100 million euros this summer in exchange for a zero to three game."
The Russians are obviously trying to hold back their anger.
He has just lost billions of euros in the financial crisis caused by the US subprime mortgage crisis, but he believes that Rijkaard can lead the team to win the Champions League, and the latter has repeatedly promised that as long as Robinho and Arshavin are available, he will have confidence to win the League Championship and attack the Champions League. But what''s the result?
Yes, the league is number one, but it''s tied.
After 11 Premier League games, Chelsea and Liverpool have the same points, but the blues are in the first place by goal difference.
Ferguson''s Manchester United are two points behind them in third place.
As for the fourth place in the league, apart from Arsene Wenger''s arsenal, who else?
But even so, Abramovich is not reconciled.
He has invested so much money, is it just to get a premier league leader?
"Do you know how much I regret now?"
Abramovich suddenly came up with such a sentence, which surprised Peter Kenyon and granovsky. What does it mean?
"I regret how I heard the lies of pini Zahavi and Jose Vega at the beginning. How can I think that if I have money, I can win the championship wantonly, how can I fire the cold and give away the champions to others?"
Abramovich said at the end, looking very angry, it is obvious that this words in his mind also suppressed long enough.
"There are a lot of bad things about that bastard in alpine region, but at least, he has given me a corresponding return for every penny I put in. He will bring me as many champions as I put in, but what about this group of bastards? Only throw money, no champion
"How much money have I invested over the years? But what did they bring me? "
Peter Kenyon and granovsky looked at each other, helpless.
No matter whether they admit it or not, falling out with the cold at the beginning is absolutely the stupidest thing they have done so far. Even if it was just a good time to get together and break up, there was still room for each other to turn around.
But now, each other has become immortal enemies.
After the cold, Chelsea changed two managers, whether it''s Jose or Rijkaard, who spend more money than the cold, but the return is far less than the cold.
If it is said that during the period of his coaching, he can still win the league title, and the Champions League once reached the final, then when he comes to Rijkaard, he has to give people and money, and even his best assistant Teng Carter has dug a lot of money from Ajax, but the situation is even worse, not only losing the league title, but also the lack of competition in the Champions League.
It''s not surprising that Abramovich is angry. He has suffered a lot in the financial crisis in the past year. The investment in the transfer market is almost out of his blood. As a result, he won the game 0-3 and everyone will be angry.
But sometimes it''s not easy to think about it, either.
Alpine is the number one head coach in football today. He can make the input and output return. But the problem is, looking at the whole world, even from ancient times to the present, it''s just Alpine.
But I was offended by myself.
It''s easier to form a feud than to let go.
Let alone the cold, even Mendes is reluctant to make a deal with Chelsea.
"Peter, you tell him later that if you can''t get into the last four of the Champions League, he''ll go away for me." Abramovich said lightly.
After that, the Russian turned and left.
Granovskia hesitated for a moment, then got up and left.
Leaving Peter Kenyon in his seat and watching the game off the pitch, Chelsea still had the advantage, but never made a threat, which made him think that if it was cold, he would have adjusted and made a threat.
He has just received the news that in the other games at the same time, Bayern Munich are also in Florence, Italy, 2-0 away, temporarily ahead of the viola.
If we win this match, Gao and his Bayern Munich will qualify as the first in the group ahead of time.
On the other hand, if Chelsea lose to Roma in this game, the two teams will have the same points, which is not a good phenomenon for the blues. If they accidentally fall to the second place in the group, then
Peter Kenyon couldn''t imagine what it would be like.
It''s hard for the coach, and it''s hard for the CEO.
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In the end, Chelsea failed to turn things around, losing 3-1 to Roma.
After this match, the whole European football world launched a fierce attack on Rijkaard. In particular, the British media''s early departure of boss Abramovich was regarded as dissatisfaction with the coaching staff.
Martin Samuel, a famous British columnist and known as the gold medal writer of Chelsea, has even more impolitely accused Rijkaard of a lot of problems in his column, such as the lack of decisive use of troops, poor on-the-spot command, weak attack and weak defense.
"63-37, this is a comparison of the possession rate of the two teams. The Blues have an overwhelming advantage, but the result is 1-3. In 37% of the possession time, Roma scored three goals."
Martin Samuels pointed the spearhead directly at the midfield of the team, believing that the weak midfield led to the team''s loss of attack and defense.
As a matter of fact, this problem has not been disclosed until now. As early as Makelele returned to the French first division, Ballack was injured and Mikel was supported to the top, people began to point out the single back problem of the team.
And this time, the British media also took out the old three, repeated use, energy conservation and environmental protection.
While Chelsea lost 3-1 to Rome, Bayern Munich beat Fiorentina 2-0 away to finish top of the group with four wins in a row.
Lyon also defeated Bucharest star team 2-0 in the fourth round group match, occupying the advantage in the competition for the second place in the group, while Fiorentina fell to the third place, but there is still hope.
It was only two weeks later that Lyon beat Fiorentina 2-1 away in the fifth round of the Champions League group match, which completely established the second position of the top French team in the group.
This game, young Benzema once again eye-catching performance, a pass and a shot to help Lyon win, won the attention of the whole Europe, countless rich teams have begun to focus on this treasure.
This round, Bayern Munich home to the full replacement team, still 3-0 win over Bucharest star team.
As for the final round of the group stage, it has no influence on the ranking of the group stage. Fiorentina beat Bucharest star team 1-0 away, Bayern Munich beat Lyon 3-2 away.
In the first half, lewandovsky and Thomas Mueller started at the same time. The Polish striker scored twice and Thomas Mueller scored the second goal. However, in the second half, gowu and Benzema scored one goal each and each side played well.
During this period, a total of five rounds of Bundesliga matches were held. Bayern Munich beat Schalke 04 2-1 away, menxingladbach 2-0 away, cortebus 5-0 at home, Leverkusen 2-0 away and Hoffenheim 2-1 at home.
One of the most dangerous and difficult games is the home game against Hoffenheim.
First, ibisevic used Bayern Munich''s defensive error to score a goal at the beginning of the first half. Then the Bundesliga giants kept on fighting back, but they didn''t get the chance. It was not until the 70th minute of the second half that Bayern Munich equalised by Rahm. Then, levandovsky, the substitute, scored the winner.
This also makes the Polish youngster famous again.
In December, the group match was over and the Champions League was suspended, but the situation became more and more interesting.