On December 13, in the 16th round of the Premier League, Chelsea faced Hull City at home.

This game is only 2 days away from the match against Sporting CP. It is an out-and-out two-match schedule in three days.

If you change a team, it may be a headache. Even if you play a football manager game, you will rack your brains facing a screen of players with "unsatisfied health bars".

But for Chelsea, the previous Champions League game was just a "friendly match" and they did not try their best at all.

In addition, Pan Yi has already planned such a schedule, and the personnel arrangement can successfully complete the rotation.

Therefore, when facing Hull City, they can still face it in a relatively full state.

Just four minutes into the game, Lukaku opened the scoring for Chelsea with a sweep from the penalty area.

Then, around the 25th minute, Lukaku broke into the penalty area and was brought down to get a penalty kick. Hazard scored in one stroke, extending the lead to two goals.

After that, Chelsea still controlled the situation and kept the game in Hull City's half.

Hull City's strength itself is not very strong. Under Chelsea's high pressure, they can only try to defend and cannot take any action to counterattack. This also makes Chelsea play more relaxedly.

After changing sides in the second half, Chelsea scored another goal.

This time it was defender Ivanovic with a knife. He broke in from the back row and hit a world wave in the right corner of the penalty area.

In the end, Chelsea easily defeated Tiger City 3:0 at home, winning the first 16 consecutive games!

Such a record naturally triggered a discussion in the world of football after the game.

Because no one knows where Chelsea will end up!

One day later, Chelsea also booked a banquet hall of a luxury hotel in the city center and held a dinner party.

This can be regarded as a celebration banquet, and it is also a good time to watch the draw ceremony of the Champions League top 16 together.

Except for CEO Ron Gurray who was not present at the draw, owners like Abramovich and chairman Bruce Buck came to the hotel to have dinner with the players and coaches.

Pan Yi also invited Valentina to attend, but she was rejected.

Although after more than a week of body sculpting training, Valentina's physical and mental state have changed a lot, at least not as decadent as at the beginning;

But after all, she still feels a little inferior about her slightly fat figure, so she is still unwilling to show up in such public places.

Pan Yi also understood this and let her go.

Let’s talk about it after a while!

In the hotel, Abramovich also gave a brief speech, to the effect of congratulating the team on their achievements and hoping that the team could continue their efforts and achieve better results in the Premier League and Champions League.

Subsequently, Abramovich also directly announced that this year's championship bonus, whether it is the Premier League or the Champions League, will be directly increased by 50% on the original basis!

This of course also caused bursts of cheers from the audience.

Pan Yi also gave a speech.

He also expressed optimism about the team's prospects, but still suggested that everyone should pay attention to the schedule during the Christmas and winter breaks.

Although Chelsea no longer has the task of League Cup, the pressure has been reduced a lot;

But why is the Christmas schedule so scary every year?

It is because of the high-intensity Premier League games alone that three or four games are often scheduled to be played in a week.

The Premier League teams will also join the FA Cup competition at this stage, which further aggravates the situation.

In previous Premier League seasons, Arsenal often faltered at this stage.

One of the reasons is that they attach great importance to the League Cup, especially the FA Cup. The "insulated cup" is not called it for nothing!

However, it is undoubtedly very risky to force a fourth-line operation when the team's lineup is not very abundant and the depth of the bench is average.

There is a joke that asks, "What is the sign of the arrival of spring?"

Answer: "First, the days are getting longer; second, the temperature is getting warmer; third, Arsenal has begun to withdraw from the championship competition in various competitions."

Occasionally it is a coincidence, but if it happens often, there is a pattern.

Therefore, Pan Yi also asked everyone to be more vigilant and not make the same mistake.

In his speech, Pan Yi also said that the team's most important goal this season is to win the Premier League and Champions League, and everyone should relax and play in other cup competitions.

The League Cup has been eliminated, and the FA Cup can go anywhere. This competition also gives the young players in the team more opportunities to show themselves.

This also relieves some of the psychological burden on the players. Otherwise, they would compete to win every game and have a tight string in their heads all the time, which would easily lead to collapse.

In addition, when the team is winning continuously and is almost invincible, the players' complacency also needs to be controlled.

There are mostly young players in the team. When they achieve such good results, they will be put in the spotlight. Fans all over the world are talking about them, which also adds many fans to them.

There will even be more activities including commercial endorsements.

When there are more and more external temptations, players with high professionalism will handle them well and still put more energy into training and competition.

And some young players will just float up, and then float further and further, and finally fall down and it will be very painful.

This is also an important reason for many "Injury Zhongyong" type players.

Listening to Pan Yi's teachings, the players also nodded. Of course they understand what the coach expects of them!

After Pan Yi's speech, the draw ceremony for the top 16 of the Champions League began in Nyon, Switzerland, and the small balls representing each team began to be taken out of the glass jar one by one.

Due to the rules of group avoidance and same country avoidance, Chelsea, who qualified first in the group, will not encounter Arsenal, Manchester City and Dortmund.

In this way, their opponents can only be between Atletico Madrid, Basel, Schalke 04, Paris Saint-Germain and Shakhtar Donetsk.

In fact, for Pan Yi and Chelsea now, it doesn't matter who is drawn in the top 16. Anyway, if they want to win the championship and maintain victory, they have to defeat them all.

But if you must choose, it would definitely be better to choose Basel or Schalke 04, which are relatively weaker.

It's just that Chelsea, with such a strong momentum now, wouldn't it be too challenging if they played Basel or something like that?

Therefore, Chelsea "naturally" got the second place in the strongest group.

Paris Saint-Germain!

Another eye-catching aspect of this game is that Pan Yi's two old players in Milan, Ibrahimovic and Thiago Silva, are now the backbone of Paris Saint-Germain.

This draw result made Chelsea players whisper among themselves.

Although Pan Yi also felt that he was being targeted a bit, he still stood up and took advantage of the situation to encourage everyone:

"I like this lottery result very much."

"I just like to chew hard bones, so that I can prove our strength, don't you?"

"Our goal is the ultimate championship, and if the opponents we eliminate on the way to the championship are all unknowns, it seems too boring."

"So let us get ready, let us capture Paris!"

There were bursts of applause and cheers from the dining table.

Pan Yi continued: "It's just that by the time we actually leave for Paris, it will be two months later."

"We still have to do the things in front of us first and play the latest games first."

"When we have truly passed this harsh Christmas schedule, we can use our best mental state and competitive state to face the challenge of Paris Saint-Germain!..."

This is emphasized once again.

Next, the draws for other Champions League teams were completed quickly.

Bayern Munich VS Shakhtar Donetsk.

Porto VS Basel.

Real Madrid VS Schalke 04.

Barcelona VS Manchester City.

Juventus VS Dortmund.

Hamburger VS Atletico Madrid.

Arsenal VS Monaco.

Apart from Chelsea vs. Paris Saint-Germain, the most watched of the remaining matches is of course Barcelona vs. Manchester City.

They met again!

And they met in the top 16 of the Champions League for two consecutive years.

In addition to the grudge match between them, the two games Juventus VS Dortmund and Hamburg VS Atletico Madrid are also quite interesting.

Especially Hamburg VS Atletico Madrid. When Hamburg won the championship last season, they defeated Atletico Madrid in the semi-finals.

This season, Hamburg will face Atletico Madrid again after missing Pan Yi. People are curious about what kind of results they can achieve.

Compared with them, like Real Madrid, Bayern's luck seems to be much better, after all, their opponents are not traditional powers.

Arsenal also finally stopped playing Barcelona and Bayern Munich.

Will they perform better when facing a relatively soft "persimmon" like Monaco?——

On December 22, Chelsea challenged Stoke City away from home.

Stoke City, a team based in Stoke-on-Trent, England, was founded in 1863. Although it has always been regarded as the second oldest football league club in the world after Notts County, it is the Football League
To be continued...