As a goalkeeper, carry the team forward

Chapter 300 A Scream

A direct pass from Fabregas.

After Ivan got the ball, he forcibly broke into the right side of the Swansea penalty area, and then kicked and hit the goal.

It's a pity that it was blocked by Swansea players.

The ball bounced and flew to the left side of the small penalty area.

On the edge of the small penalty area, Costa grabbed the first spot and directly hit the golden hook upside down.

The ball deflects into the net after hitting Federico Fernandez's chest.

2:0.

Chelsea also won the opening 4 consecutive victories, leading the standings with Guardiola's Manchester City.

In this game, Costa messed up Swansea's defense alone and made a huge contribution to Chelsea's goal.

And Jose saved the opponent's penalty and an absolute one-handed chance, and kept the goal alone, which is the biggest contributor to Chelsea's victory.

It can be said that without Jose and Costa, the result of this game is still unknown.

After this campaign, Chelsea will usher in a real test.

The first is the start of the Champions League group stage.

With Chelsea's current strength, there should be no problem qualifying, but of course we must be careful not to capsize in the gutter.

The second is that the league has to play against Liverpool and Arsenal one after another.

Although Liverpool's performance is not stable today, robbing the rich and helping the poor has become their new pronoun.

When Liverpool face the top-ranked teams, they will show unparalleled combat effectiveness, but when facing the underdogs, they are often upset.

As for Arsenal, before the end of the transfer period, they successively purchased several powerful players such as Mustafi and Xhaka.

What's more, Wenger's "most ready team" has enough fighting spirit. Now Chelsea has been unbeaten in 43 league rounds across the season, and there is only a gap of 49 rounds from Arsenal's 5 unbeaten rounds.

Arsenal absolutely do not want Chelsea to break their 49-round unbeaten record.

The last is the League Cup against Leicester City.

Leicester City created a legendary record last season. Mahrez had to go to Guardiola for a summer, but Leicester City never let go, which shows that they are completely different from Villa.

Chelsea was able to win Kanter because Kanter had a liquidated damages, otherwise the result is likely to be the same as Mahrez.

No one knows how far Leicester City is from last season.

Of course, the English League Cup can be completely given up.

For Premier League teams, the only role of the League Cup is to qualify for the European War.After all, the championship bonus of only 20 pounds is not enough for a player's weekly salary.

On September 9, on the eve of the Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival, a UEFA Champions League group match was played at Stamford Bridge.

Chelsea host Monaco.

Mourinho attaches great importance to this game. As the defending champion of the Champions League, he can't even qualify for the group stage like he did in 12.

In this game, there was only one change in Chelsea's starting lineup. David Luiz played for Chelsea again after more than two years, and Cahill, who almost caused a big mistake because of carelessness in the last game, sat on the bench .

As for Monaco, Falcao, who has been recovering from injury at Chelsea for a season, got the start. The popular fried chicken Mbappe is absent due to injury. The specific list is as follows.

Goalkeeper: Subasic.

Defenders: Sidibe, Remersson, Glick, Raj.

Double midfielders: Bakayoko, Fabinho.

Attacking midfield: Bernardo Silva, Moutinho, Di Rabi.

Center forward: Falcao.

Chelsea took the lead in kicking off and, relying on their home court advantage, directly launched consecutive attacks against Monaco.

Monaco is well aware of the horror of the defending champion, decisively gave up possession of the ball and took the initiative to shrink the defense.

Facing the densely defended Monaco, Chelsea seemed to have few options.

Costa, Hazard, and William missed opportunities one after another.

On the contrary, Monaco used a quick counterattack to create several excellent scoring opportunities in the first half.

In the 15th minute, Fabinho successfully countered the frontcourt and blocked the ball to the B seat.

Bernardo Silva broke into the right side of the penalty area after taking the ball from the right rib position.

At 16 yards in front of the goal, Silva shot a low shot from the far corner with his left foot.

The ball flew past the Chelsea defense to the bottom left corner of the goal.

Fortunately, Jose sensed the threat in advance, decisively chose to attack, and blocked the ball halfway.

Chelsea did not wake up after getting away with it.

In the 31st minute, Monaco had another chance.

Monaco full-back Sidibe crosses in from the left.

Substitute Lemar headed in from the edge of the six-yard box.

David Luiz defended very bravely, he blocked Le Horse's header with his body.

In fact, it is better for David Luiz not to block Le Maer's header, because Jose is already ready to save.

The ball hit Louis, but it did not bounce out of the small penalty area, but rolled towards the left side of the small penalty area.

At this moment, the brains of the four Blues players in Chelsea's penalty area all went down, and none of them stepped forward to make a clearance.

When they reacted, Le Maer got the ball for the second time.

At a distance of 3 yards in front of the goal, Le Maer volleyed with his left foot, and the ball flew straight to the lower left corner of the goal.

Such a close-range shot, even Jose did not dare to deal with it carelessly.

To be on the safe side, Jose decisively used cheats.

No need for nothing.

Thrilling, Jose finally controlled the ball in his hands.

At the beginning of the season, the running-in problem between the players will always exist.

Jose has already felt this deeply after two seasons with Villa, Leverkusen and Chelsea.

In the first half, the two sides played 0-0, and Chelsea won the game without scoring.

In the second half, Monaco insisted on using the counterattack tactics of the first half.

Chelsea's ball possession rate was once as high as 70%, and the number of shots was more than three times that of Monaco. However, the real threat was far less than Monaco's two chances in the first half.

Unknowingly, the game has entered the stoppage time stage.

Seeing that the game will end in a flat.

Jose gets the ball in the middle circle.

Monaco's substitute striker Germain came to grab the ball.

Jose didn't dodge or evade. When the opponent stretched out his foot to poke the ball, he flicked his left foot lightly, and the ball instantly moved from the left side to Jose's right side.

Germain naturally did not touch the ball, but swept on Jose's ankle.

"Ah." Jose screamed, and the sound resounded throughout the audience.

The referee decisively showed Germain a yellow card warning.

No one would care too much about a free kick in the center circle.

And that's exactly what Jose wanted.

A free kick was taken quickly, and Jose directly hit the goal with his big foot.

Although Jose blasted the ball at a speed of more than 220 hours, he was blocked by the Monaco goalkeeper because the shot was too far away.

The ball did not fly out of the penalty area.

On the right side of the penalty area, Costa grabbed the rebounded ball.

Costa volleys with his right foot.

This time, the ball finally scored.

Jose was regarded as an indirect assist for Costa to score.

Only then did Monaco wake up to the fact that Jose had intentionally lured Le Maer into a foul.

(End of this chapter)