I just wanted to play football, but I became a Hollywood god

Chapter 453 One in ten thousand! It’s almost like a game with no hope of winning!

Before 11 noon, the Southampton team bus slowly drove into the Stamford Bridge football stadium.

Stamford Bridge Stadium is one of the earliest professional football stadiums in England. Before the stadium owner Mills first bought the stadium, the stadium was only used as a polo club for aristocrats. Later, aristocratic gentlemen also After being destitute, he had no money to play polo, so Mills bought it and used it as a football field.

Stanford Stadium was originally an oval. Later, after renovation and expansion, the stadium gradually became square.

Stanford Stadium can now accommodate 42420 people, and its facilities are all top-notch in Europe. In addition to the live broadcast room, press center, cafeteria, executive boxes, and jersey purchase mall, it can also be hot stamped on site to print your name on the purchase. on the jersey.

Stanford Stadium is different from most other stadiums in that the exclusive stand for die-hard Blues fans is not the South Stand, but the North Stand-the Matthew Harding Stand.

Although the Matthew Harding Stand is not as famous as Liverpool’s KOP Stand, it is definitely a holy place in the hearts of Chelsea fans.

Matthew Harding was the former CEO of Chelsea Club. He died in a plane crash in 1966. In order to commemorate Matthew Harding's contribution to Chelsea, the club named the Taipei Stand where the craziest home team fans watch the Matthew Harding Stand.

In 2006, after the Blues defended their Premier League title, Mourinho, the crazy head coach at the time, threw his championship medal into the Matthew Harding Stand in order to thank Chelsea fans for their support, which detonated the whole audience. It also made the Matthew Harding Stand the most famous stand of the year.

——Speaking of Mourinho, Mourinho is definitely one of the most unique coaches in the world.

The other three stands in Stamford Bridge are the East Stand, which can accommodate more than 1 people, the West Main Stand, and the Shehed Stand on the south side.

The East Stand is a three-story stand that also includes the players' passage, the two teams' locker rooms, the players' restaurant, the interview center, etc.

Corresponding to the East Stand is the West Stand, which is also the main stand of the stadium. This stand has more than 1 seats, and also has Chelsea’s top executive boxes, commonly known as the Millennium Boxes. These boxes are named after Chelsea It is named after a famous player in the club's history.

The last south stand is the short-side stand, named the Shehed Stand. It can only accommodate 6831 fans and is specially prepared for visiting team fans.

After the Southampton team arrived at the Stamford Stadium, they had a buffet in the players' restaurant at noon, took a brief rest, and then conducted adaptive warm-ups on the green field of Stamford Bridge.

This game is definitely a very crucial game for Southampton.

However, according to the format, even if they lose this game, Southampton still has a chance.

The quarter-finals of the League Cup are played in two rounds. Each team plays a home game and an away game. The elimination result is determined by adding the number of goals in the two games. If the number of goals is the same, the away goal will be better. If the number of away goals is the same, then overtime will be played. If there is a tie in overtime, it will be a penalty shootout.

Today's pre-match handicap odds given by William Hill Gambling Company are that Chelsea allows two goals to win 1.92, two goals to tie 3.34, and two goals to lose 7.20.

Not even a handicap.

This shows that the betting company is almost [-]% optimistic that Chelsea can win Southampton at home. As the champion of the last Premier League, Chelsea's recent momentum is also very strong. Although Southampton can eliminate Everton and upset Manchester City, there is only a ten thousandth chance to defeat the Premier League champion Chelsea at Stamford Bridge. The probability of one - is about equal to none.

As the head coach of Southampton, Adkins is facing off against a wealthy upstart team like Chelsea for the first time. Coach Adkins is also working hard to reduce pressure on his players and himself.

Although the players of the Southampton team were nervous, they actually did not feel particularly burdened by psychological pressure.

After all, with the strength of the English League One team, it is already remarkable that Southampton can play to this level. Even if they really lose to Chelsea, Saints fans will never complain about the players.

After training for two hours, the Southampton players returned to the locker room to rest and adjust.

At 5:[-] p.m., fans from both sides began to enter the stadium.

In less than 20 minutes, the Taipei stand of the Blues die-hards was filled with Chelsea fans wearing blue jerseys, while the Shehed Stand on the south side was filled with more than 6800 Southampton fans who had come from afar.

Before the game started, before the players took the stage, fans from both sides chanted team songs to each other in the air.

Although Southampton and Chelsea are not mortal enemies, not even old enemies, long ago, when Southampton was still a Premier League team, every time they played against Chelsea, players and fans from both sides would break out. Skirmish.

This is probably also related to the red and white roses. After all, London and Southampton have been hostile to each other for centuries.

Now, although Southampton has been reduced to the League One team, and Chelsea has jumped from the middle and lower reaches of the Premier League to the top team in the Premier League with Abramovich's strong intervention, Southampton people are still not used to it. The Londoners have a bad habit, especially because Chelsea Club has been poaching their star player Gu Ran openly.

This unabashed poaching behavior is also regarded as an arrogant provocation by Southampton Saints die-hard fans. Therefore, Saints fans are not timid about this asymmetrical game at all. Even if they lose, Saints fans I definitely don’t give in to Blues fans.

5:50pm.

The coaches of both sides attended the pre-match press conference in the press center at Stamford Bridge.

This pre-match press conference attracted reporters from major British media and even reporters from other European countries.

Another game that was played at the same time as this game was Manchester United against Tottenham. Judging from the number of stars on both sides, the game between Manchester United and Tottenham should have attracted more attention, but judging from the number of media present Speaking of which, it is obvious that this is the area that attracts the most attention from the world.

Who doesn't want to see the performance of the super star Gu Ran who can lead the English League One team all the way to the League Cup quarter-finals? Who doesn't want to know which wealthy family this God's sweetheart, who is being chased by many wealthy families, will choose as his true starting point?
  Any news about Gu Ran will attract huge traffic!
  That’s why the news media is flocking to it!
  Before the official start of the press conference, Coach Adkins took the initiative to shake hands with current Chelsea head coach Carlo Ancelotti and greet him.

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(End of this chapter)