On the evening of November 4th, Rome, Italy.

There is a fierce UEFA Champions League group stage in the Olympic Stadium, against both sides, the home team Red Wolf Roma and the visiting team Blues Chelsea. This is also a focus game in Group A of the Champions League group stage.

Before this round, the two teams played three games each, Chelsea won two wins and one draw and remained unbeaten, while Roma won one win, one draw and one loss, three points behind Chelsea and ranked second in the group stage.

Both teams are the biggest favorites in Group A.

The Blues invested huge sums of money this summer, introducing Robinho and Al Shavin from Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid at a high price to create the betting kings, triggering the European transfer market throughout the summer.

Head coach Rijcard was also full of confidence and ambitious to regain his former peak in Barcelona.

In this game, Rijkaard's opening tactics were mainly passing and controlling, with Robinho, Anelka and Al Shavin on the front line, and Drogba took the bench in rotation.

The midfielder was lined up with a combination of Mikel, Lampard and Joe Cole.

This also demonstrated his attitude from the beginning that Chelsea should focus on possessing the ball.

From the beginning of the game, Chelsea patiently dealt with the home team with his more skillful pass and control style, and got a corner kick opportunity in the first five minutes, but failed to create a threat.

After that, the Blues fought very smoothly, with a very obvious advantage in passing and controlling. Robinho and Arshavin on both sides of the left and right sides were full of attack power, and the combination with Anelka was also quite sharp, almost putting Roma in the half, gaining all the advantage.

But in the 34th minute, a foul in the midfield gave Roma a chance to have a free kick in the frontcourt.

The Red Wolves quickly sent a free kick, Toti was assigned to the right, Ciscinho got the ball and passed it back to the middle, and Panucci, who was unguarded in the back row, pushed the ball into the small penalty area and scored, scoring the first record for Roma.

But this goal completely angered Chelsea. The Blues began to launch a more violent attack, threatening Roma's goal again and again, but always missing the goal.

Both sides ended the first half with a one-to-zero score.

After the second half of the game, Chelsea still controlled the situation and Lampard scored the first shot.

But soon, Roma seized an opportunity and counterattacked. Vulcinic, who was retreating to defend, stepped in from the back row. After receiving a pass from his teammate at the front of the penalty area, he shot vigorously. The ball was like a sharp arrow and the upper left corner was hit, 2 to zero.

Leaving two goals behind, Chelsea played even more anxiously and was soon seized by Roma.

After Vulcinic, who performed well in this game, successfully retreated and intercepted the ball, he deliberately slowed down and set a distance from Mikel. After receiving the ball, he suddenly started and threw away Mikel with one step. He ran away for nearly 70 meters in a long distance. He calmly scored the ball into the goal, scoring twice, three to zero.

Three goals completely exclaimed Roma's sharpness.

Spaletti's 442 formation changed into formation also completely activated Vulsinic.

But Chelsea's poor performance of not scoring has made all fans who follow the team to the away game feel a little embarrassed.

Club owner Abramovich, assistant Granovskiya, and CEO Peter Kenion were all sitting in the stands, with an extremely serious expression, especially the Russians, who could not hide their loss and even anger.

"I spent more than 100 million euros this summer, but I received this zero-to-three."

The Russians were slapped in words and said, obviously, to endure the anger in their hearts.

He just lost billions of euros in the financial storm caused by the US subprime mortgage crisis, but he believes that Rijcard can lead the team to the Champions League, and the latter has repeatedly promised that as long as Robinho and Arshavin were there, he would be confident that he would win the league championship and strive for the Champions League, but what was the result?

Yes, the league is ranked first, but it is tied for the team.

After the 11th round of the Premier League, Chelsea scored the same points as Liverpool, but the Blues ranked first with a goal difference advantage.

Ferguson's Manchester United trailed them by two points and ranked third.

As for the fourth place in the league, who else can be there besides Wenger's Arsenal?

But even so, Abramovich was still unwilling to give up.

He has invested so much money, is he just going to win a Premier League leader?

"Do you know how much I regret now?"

Abramovich suddenly said something, which surprised Peter Kenyon and Granovskiya beside him. What does this mean?

"I regret why I heard the lies between Pini Zahavi and Jose Vega. Why did I think that if I have money, I can win the championship at will. Why did I fuck Gao Han and give all the championships to others?"

Abramovich seemed extremely angry at the end of his speech. Obviously, these words had been suppressed in his heart for a long time.

"Gao Han has many bad things, but at the very least, he made every penny I invested in. He would bring me the championship as much as I invested. But what about these bastards? They only invested money, but they didn't see the championship!"

"How much money have I invested over the years? But what have they brought to me?"

Peter Kenyon and Granovskiya both looked at each other, extremely helpless.

Whether they admit it or not, the quarrel with Gao Han was definitely the stupidest thing they have done so far. Even if they just got together and parted ways, they could still leave room for each other.

But now, each other has become mortal enemies.

After Gao Han, Chelsea changed two coaches. Whether it was Mourinho or Rijcard, they were all the people who spent money like water. They spent more money than Gao Han, but the reward was far less than Gao Han.

If Mourinho was able to win the league championship during his coaching period and reached the finals of the Champions League, then when he arrived at Rijcard, he asked for people and money. Even his best assistant Tencart was poached from Ajax, but the situation was even worse. Not only did he lose the league championship, but he was unable to compete in the Champions League.

It is indeed not for Abramovich to be angry. He has suffered heavy losses in the financial crisis this year. He has almost taken out the investment in the transfer market. In the end, he has been in exchange for this zero-to-three match, and anyone else will get angry.

But sometimes when you think about it again, it is not easy for Mourinho and Rijcard to do so.

Gao Han is the number one head coach in football today. He can reward input and output, but the problem is that looking at the whole world, even throughout the ages, it is only Gao Han.

But I was offended by myself.

It is easy to make enemies and it is difficult to let go.

Now let alone Gao Han, even Mendes is not willing to trade with Chelsea.

"Peter, go back and tell him that if you can't make it to the semi-finals in the Champions League, he will get out of here." Abramovich said lightly.

After saying that, the Russian turned around and left.

Granovskiya hesitated for a moment and then stood up and left.

Leaving Peter Kenyon in the seat, watching the game off the court, Chelsea still had the advantage, but never could create a threat, which made him think in his heart that if it were Gao Han, he would have made adjustments and threatened.

He just received the news that in the other games at the same time, the tall Bayern Munich was also in Fiorentina, Italy, and temporarily led the Purple Lily.

If you win this game, Gao Han and his Bayern Munich will qualify as the first in the group in advance.

On the other hand, if Chelsea loses to Roma in this game, the two teams have the same points, which is not a good phenomenon for the Blues. If they accidentally fall into the second place in the group, then...

Peter Kenyon could not imagine what kind of scene it would be.

It’s hard for the coach to do something, but it’s also hard for the CEO to do something.

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Chelsea ultimately failed to turn the situation around and lost to Roma one-to-three away.

After this game, the entire European football world launched fierce criticism of Rijkaard, especially the British media's early departure of boss Abramovich was seen as dissatisfaction with the coaching staff.

Martin Samuel, a famous British columnist and known as Chelsea gold medal writer, bluntly accused Rijkaard of his lack of decisive military use, poor on-site command, weak offense, and weak defense in the column.

"Sixty-three to thirty-seven, this is a comparison of the ball possession rate of the two teams. The Blues have an overwhelming advantage, but the result is one to three. In 37% of the ball possession time, Roma scored three goals."

Martin Samuel directly pointed his finger at the team's midfield, believing that the weak midfield caused the team to lose their offense and defense.

In fact, this problem has not been disclosed now. As early as after Marklele returned to Ligue 1, Barack was injured and young player Mikel was supported to take the lead, people began to point out the team's single-middle problem.

And this time, the British media still came up with these three things, repeatedly used them to save energy and be environmentally friendly.

While Chelsea lost to Roma one-to-three away, Bayern Munich defeated Fiorentina 2-0 away, successfully winning four consecutive games and qualifying for the top spot in the group.

Lyon also defeated the Bucharest Stars 2-0 at home in the fourth round of the group stage, gaining an advantage in the competition for the second place in the group, while Fiorentina fell in third place, but there is still hope.

It was not until the fifth round of the Champions League group stage two weeks later that Lyon defeated Fiorentina 2-1 away, which completely established the second place in the group of the Ligue 1 powerhouses.

In this game, the young player Benzema performed well again, helping Lyon win with one pass and one shot, winning the attention of all Europe. Countless giant teams began to focus on this treasure.

In this round, Bayern Munich played with a full substitute at home, and still defeated the Bucharest Stars 3-0.

As for the last round of the group stage, it has no impact on the group stage ranking. Fiorentina beats Bucharest Stars 1-0 away, and Bayern Munich beats Lyon 3-2 away.

In the first half, Lewandowski and Thomas Muller scored twice, and Thomas Muller scored the second goal, but Govu and Benzema each scored one goal in the second half, and both sides played good goals in the half.

During this period, the Bundesliga held a total of five rounds, Bayern Munich defeated Schalke and 04 away, 2-0 away, 2-0 away, 5-0 home defeated Cotbus, 2-0 away, 2-0 away, Leverkusen, and 2-1 home defeated Hoffenheim.

The most thrilling and difficult game is to face Hoffenheim at home.

First, Ibissevic scored a goal by taking advantage of Bayern Munich's defensive mistake in the first half. Then the Bundesliga giants kept counterattacking, but they failed to get the chance. It was not until the 70th minute of the second half that Ram equalized the score, and then Lewandowski, who came on the bench, scored the final goal.

This also made the Polish young player famous again.
Chapter completed!