Football: Banned for life, forced to travel to Europe

Chapter 691

To be honest, there are quite a lot of upsets in this European Cup.

England, Spain and Switzerland, the three most promising teams before the game, failed to make it past the top [-]. Belgium, ranked fourth in the world, stopped in the top eight and lost to Wales...

Belgium's number one Eden Hazard performed well, delivering one goal and four assists in five games, but helplessly, the Belgian striker was weak. Lukaku only scored two goals, as many as Nainggolan, and Batshuayi also scored two goals. It's embarrassing, this is a pure fake strong team.

Germany, ranked second in the world, also lost to France. Compared with Portugal, which won the championship, it can't be regarded as a big upset. At least they are also the top ten national teams in the world.

Of course, the most classic battle also broke out. On June [-], before the group match between England and Russia, a large-scale conflict broke out between [-] Russian fans and [-] English fans in the Vieux Port in the center of Marseille, France.

England fans, who have always been known as football hooligans, were beaten to pieces...

The end of the European Cup means that the new season is about to start.

The final was played on July [-]th, and the opening game of the Premier League was on August [-]th. There was only one month left, and there was not much time left for the teams to train in the summer.

The players who participated in the European Cup will also be on vacation, and Chelsea's China tour this year has also been suspended.

This is what Mourinho requested. He believes that Chelsea will focus on winning the Champions League three consecutive times this season. In this case, he cannot tolerate players going to Asia to participate in commercial competitions.

In the last stage of last season, Chelsea also suffered a wave of injuries. In the Champions League final, Cesc Fabregas suffered from cramps, which was caused by poor physical reserves.

Therefore, Mourinho put the summer training in his hometown Portugal this year, and did not participate in any XX Champions Cup in the United States. Chelsea's summer training only has two contents, physical reserve and running-in new tactics.

What made Mourinho more gratified was that most of the players who participated in the European Cup came back early to participate in summer training. In fact, Kanter was the only Chelsea player who actually participated in the European Cup final.

In this time and space, Mourinho has not been tricked by the French gang. On the contrary, Chef Fan has gone crazy. Pogba and Martial are his two cores in the new season. As a result, the two of them went to California for vacation.

Of course, I've been tired for a whole season, so there's nothing wrong with enjoying it...

After the start of the summer training, Mourinho asked the physical coach to exert a lot of intensity. The players were trained every day without even the strength to speak, and there were many complaints...

Even if it is a complaint, the training intensity cannot be reduced. Everyone knows that this is to reserve physical fitness for the new season. If you want to play in the Premier League, not having physical fitness is a joke.

To everyone's surprise, there were only two members of the Chelsea team who remained calm in the face of such intense training. One was to make a wish. Everyone knew that he had good physical strength, so there was nothing wrong with him.

And the other is Kanter, who has just participated in the European Cup!

Now everyone understands, no wonder the English media are saying that "70% of the earth's surface is covered by water, and the remaining 30% is covered by Kanter."

Kanter's physical strength is really scary...

Not only is his physical strength terrifying, but Kanter is also terrifyingly quick at adapting to new tactics.

In Mourinho's set of 433, Kanter's task is relatively heavy. He not only has to sweep the midfield, but also takes part in the responsibility of advancing with the ball.

Of course, if possible, Kanter still needs to run to the front of the penalty area to take a few long shots...

This is completely the two duties of a b2b midfielder and a sweeping midfielder, but Kanter has done a good job. Mourinho can't help feeling that the money is too worthwhile, even double it!

Because all Chelsea players are doing a lot of physical training, their performance in friendly matches was very poor. They played three friendly matches against Benfica, Porto and Setubal, and only handed in one win, one draw and one loss.

Wishing is still strong, scoring five goals in three games, but most of his teammates are out of shape, can't run, and their tactics are not well adapted.

This has led to unanimous pessimism from the media. They think that Chelsea's slogan for three consecutive Champions League games in the new season is a joke and it is difficult to achieve...

However, the mentality of the Chelsea team is quite good. They know what they are doing, and after winning Setubal in the third warm-up match, the Chelsea players obviously feel that their state has improved. The new tactics are getting more and more adapted.

But the media and fans can't see this. They think that Chelsea's victory over Setubal is entirely because the opponent is too weak, and they won it by themselves...

Amid such public opinion, the Chelsea team returned to England. Three days later, they will compete with last season's Premier League runner-up Arsenal for this year's Community Shield at Wembley Stadium.

It was also mentioned before that the participating teams in the English Community Shield Cup are the Premier League champions and the FA Cup champions. If a team wins the double crown, the place will be postponed to the Premier League runner-up.

Last year, Manchester City got the spot, this year it's Arsenal's turn.

Mourinho doesn't care much about this game. In his opinion, the Community Shield Cup is just a more formal friendly match.

He gave the players two days off, just to adapt to the venue the day before the start of the game.

It's not that Mourinho underestimates the enemy, but that he has absolute confidence in defeating Arsenal...

Arsenal has been bleeding a lot this season. Wenger smashed the piggy bank and bought more than 1 million euros!

They spent 500 million euros from Borussia Mönchenglagbach to buy Xhaka, the double captain of Switzerland and Borussia. This 24-year-old midfielder is very hard, he plays football with passion, and he has a good long pass transfer .

Arsenal fans are about to cry. Since Vieira retired, it has been so many years, and Arsenal finally has another midfielder that looks harder...

Before it was over, Wenger spent another 100 million euros to buy the defender Mustafi, who was rumored to be favored by Chelsea.

In this transfer, Arsenal was obviously slaughtered by Valencia. After all, even if he reached the semi-finals of the European Cup, Mustafi's worth is only 2000 million euros.

If Chelsea hadn't stepped in and used Mustafi to lower the price of Lindelof, Arsenal would definitely not be able to spend so much money.

Wenger has also taken a fancy to Deportivo's forward Lucas Perez. Although the players are not yet in place, the deal has basically been negotiated. The price of 2000 million euros is not cheap.

Wenger also scratched two lottery tickets by the way, bought 300-year-old England central defender Holding from Bolton for 21 million euros, and bought 400-year-old Japanese striker Takuma Asano from Hiroshima Sanfrecce for 22 million euros.

In this way, Arsenal spent 1.13 million euros to buy this Xia Chuang, which is really nothing...

Of course, there are also some forward costs and performance-linked costs, but no Arsenal fan is willing to save this money, and Wenger is naturally unwilling.

The better the players perform, the better the team's results!