Chapter 782

Blackburn Ewood Park, December 2, 2009.

There was a dead silence on the pitch.

All the Blackburn fans held their breath and stared at the goal.

In front of the goal line, Blackburn's main goalkeeper Robinson spread his legs, opened his arms and looked straight in front of him. The Chelsea striker Kalou, who gently put the ball on the white spot of the penalty, slowly bent down, like a dormant cheetah, ready to fly to the hunt at any time.

Kalou put the ball away, slowly retreated, counting his steps, stepping heavily and hard until he stood still.

Inside the penalty area, both men are watching each other, ready to give the opponent the most lethal blow.

What's going on now is the elimination match of the last eight of the English League Cup, and the away game of Chelsea against Blackburn.

Since the start of the season, Chelsea have won a double match in a week. Three days ago, they just won a 3-0 victory over Arsenal and won a full house of applause. At the weekend, they will challenge league leader Manchester City away. The last decisive battle of the group stage of the Champions League will be in the middle of next week, which will determine whether they can reach the top.

In such a dense schedule, Chelsea also made a proper choice.

Scolari arranged a large number of substitute players to start in the Carling Cup match, forming the second team of Chelsea to challenge Blackburn away, while the home team Blackburn is under the management of Allardyce, who is determined to win the promotion right.

The two sides played in full swing in the 90 minute game, and the game was a 2-2 draw. After entering the extra time game, they even played miserably. Finally, the two sides reached the final penalty shoot out with a 3-3 draw.

At this moment, the penalty shoot out has reached the fifth round.

In the first four rounds of penalty shootout, Blackburn and Chelsea each missed one penalty.

On the side of Chelsea, Ballack missed the first round penalty, but in the fourth round, Hilario saved kalinichi's penalty, saved the blues and dragged the penalty war into the fifth round.

Robinson versus Kalou, the penalty kick will determine the outcome.

Everyone's eyes fell on the narrow restricted area. In front of the field coach, Scolari and Allardyce were also staring at the restricted area with a grim look, and their mood was also very uneasy.

Whether it's dead or alive depends on this kick!

With the referee's whistle, everyone held their breath.

Kalou took a deep breath, rushed forward quickly, stepped on the carefully calculated pace just now, stepped on the ball with one foot, swung the other foot, and fixed his eyes on the opponent's goalkeeper Robinson.

This is an experienced old goalkeeper, calm, and did not show flaws in advance, but staring at Kalou.

Kalou made a quick turn and made a deceptive feint in front of the goal, but actually pushed the ball into the middle.

But what I didn't expect was that Robinson had been ready for a long time. Although his body shifted its center of gravity, he reacted quickly and blocked Kalou's shot with his legs.

In this moment, the whole Ewood Park stadium like a crazy general outbreak.

All the Blackburn fans rushed out of the seats, cheering and screaming wildly.

Allardyce is holding his arms high, constantly whistling, venting his inner excitement.

Blackburn beat Chelsea 5-4 on penalties!

It's not the first team for Chelsea, but it's still exciting, isn't it?

For Blackburn, the league is a distant and unattainable goal, only the cup is what they should pursue most, so Allardyce devoted all his faith to the cup.

Out of Chelsea, Blackburn into the League Cup final four!

In Allardyce's side, Scolari is in Kalou penalty, quietly turned to the visiting team coach, leaving a television live camera helpless back.

It's the second loss of the season for Chelsea, but it's the result of losing a championship.

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Stamford Bridge, London.

Blackburn fans cheered on TV to celebrate the promotion. The camera also caught Scolari's helpless back and the Chelsea players walking off the pitch in low spirits.

Chelsea lost the Carling Cup!

The meeting room was quiet, but there was no tension.

For the result of this match, many people on the scene have been psychologically prepared, and the defeat has long been in their plan.

Fatigue is the biggest enemy of Chelsea, Scolari talked with the management before the game.

This season's Champions League group match drew Atletico Madrid, Chelsea's luck is not good, now there is still the last round of the group match, ushered in the decisive battle, and the league is before and after two rounds of encounter with Arsenal and Manchester City, are also important, the team needs to make some choices.

Whether it's Abramovich or the management, the advice is to ensure the league and the Champions League.

Especially the league.

Abramovich doesn't want to lose this weekend against Manchester City.

Therefore, Scolari arranged a lot of substitutes in this game, even Terry and Lampard did not play.

It should be said that it's good to play Blackburn like this away from home.

And Terry, Lampard and Drogba and other major stars are able to recuperate and prepare for the weekend of the league.

"What happened to Manchester City?" Abramovich asked with concern.

When Chelsea challenge Blackburn, city are also challenging Arsenal.

"The game is over, the Gunners are also on the second team, the result lost 0-3." Granovskia returned.

Abramovich picked the eyebrows and had already been psychologically prepared.

Manchester City have no European games this season. They concentrate on the league and cup matches. Naturally, they can play better.

More importantly, Steven Ireland, Elano, Jo, David Dunn, bridge and Petrov were the main players in the Premier League last season, but this season they can only play as substitutes under the cold.

You can imagine how strong Manchester City's bench is.

"Kaka played another half hour this time and gave an assist Said granovskia.

Abramovich frowned and worried.

Recently, the British media has been paying close attention to Kaka's news. Gao Han arranges the Brazilians to play for 20 or 30 minutes every time, which seems to help the Brazilians find the rhythm of the game, and Kaka has gradually recovered from the bench after bench.

"He won't have a chance to play this weekend." Abramovich said harshly.

As long as Chelsea control Manchester City away from home and the team is in a disadvantageous situation on the field, then Kaka will not have the chance to come off the bench.

How to play Manchester City is a headache for the coaching staff, but the management must consider the whole team.

"Boss, according to the situation that Scolari told me before, he hopes to introduce reinforcements in time during the winter break, so as to ensure the competitiveness of the team in the second half." Said granovskia.

"Why?" Now Abramovich has a headache when it comes to money.

From 2007 to now, he first divorced, then suffered from the subprime mortgage crisis, and his wealth has shrunk dramatically.

What's more, the price of oil keeps falling, which makes Abramovich, who has abundant oil resources in Siberia, suffer heavy losses.

"January is the African Cup. Drogba, Kalou and other four players have to go back to participate in the African Cup. I'm afraid they will be absent for the whole January. As you can see from the performance of this game, Ballack can hardly meet the requirements of the football team again."

Abramovich nodded. He was no longer a local tyrant. Of course, he knew the impact of the African Cup on the Premier League, and Chelsea suffered a lot because they had the most African players.

"He wants to bring in a striker and a midfield in the winter break

"Forward and midfield?" Abramovich's brows are even tighter and he knows the market.

"Is there a suitable person?"

"We have contact with Atletico Madrid, Torres and villas are very suitable candidates, but Atletico Madrid has made it clear that they refuse to negotiate with us, and the liquidated damages of both players are more than 100 million."

Now the transfer market is a bit exaggerated.

This summer, Manchester City burned more than 400 million euros in one breath, and Real Madrid still have a transfer budget of several hundred million euros on hand, which makes the value of the players in the whole European football world rise with the tide.

Let's talk about Ibrahimovic's transfer to Barcelona.

Under the competition of Real Madrid, Barcelona not only paid 70 million euro transfer fee, but also joined Eto'o. the whole transfer value is more than 100 million, surpassing Cristiano Ronaldo.

Adebayor's original transfer fee is estimated to be about 30 million euro, but Real Madrid's move has reached 40 million euro, and even many people say it's very cheap and cost-effective.

The players from Eastern Europe, which used to be relatively cheap, are also very expensive now. Barcelona's introduction of ziglinski and Chelsea's introduction of Zhirkov have exceeded 20 million. It can be seen that the value of the players is really soaring.

"No one else?" Abramovich asked calmly.

"Yes, just..." granovsky hesitated.

"Just what?"

"In the recent six months, among the most popular players in the European transfer market, the striker is the Colombian striker Falcao of China City in La Liga."

"Falcao?" Abramovich has heard of this name, often appears in the newspaper, now the Spanish top scorer list, scoring momentum even more than Messi and Ibrahimovich and other stars.

And everyone is very optimistic about this Columbia Center, not only because he scored a lot, but also because there is a cold behind him, he is the Chinese city team that Gao cold appointed to join.

Cold products, must be fine, this seems to have become a big gold lettered signboard of European football.

"At the age of 23, he was the top scorer of last season's xi'b League and helped China city to enter the La Liga smoothly. This season, he scored a lot and firmly occupied the top of the list of La Liga scorers. No matter his strength or potential, he is very optimistic."

Abramovich nodded and said nothing.

Glanofskia looked at it and continued: "but it's not easy for him to play. China city just renewed his contract with him half a month ago, and Gao Han went to Madrid to talk about it in person."

"Gao Han went to Madrid to talk in person?" Abramovich had an accident.

For this point, it shows that the high cold attaches great importance to him.

"Yes, in addition to Falcao, there is also a midfield player Ramirez, who is also one of the midfielders who have performed very well in La Liga this season. He has just renewed his contract under the leadership of Gao Han. Therefore, it is not easy to find these two players, especially during the winter break

China city team is full of treasures, which makes this team become the focus of the big and powerful teams in Europe.

Just because of the cold, many teams can't find a chance to start.

But Chelsea do not have such concerns. Everyone knows that Abramovich is not on the right track with Gao Han.

"Make an appointment with their agent for me." Abramovich hummed and laughed.

He's happy to do anything that can upset the cold but is good for Chelsea.