On the day they returned to London from Paris, Hazard and Marcos Alonso, who were injured during the game, were both admitted to the hospital for examination.
The results of the inspection were neither good nor bad.
Hazard strained the soleus muscle in the back of his calf and is expected to recuperate for a month.
Marcos Alonso suffered a hamstring injury in his thigh and will need to rest for three weeks.
Saying "not good" is of course because their injuries mean that they will definitely not be able to play in the second round against Paris, and Chelsea's formation will be affected to a certain extent.
The reason for saying "not bad" is that the injuries they suffered were not particularly serious, and after a month they were good men again!
Now Chelsea only has Premier League and Champions League games. The Premier League crown is already within easy reach. As for the Champions League, the 4-2 score against Paris Saint-Germain in the first round also minimized the impact of the two's absence.
After all, after taking a two-goal lead in the away game and holding four away goals, it is really difficult for Paris to make a comeback at Stamford Bridge.
Not to mention that Paris also lost its offensive core Yin Bu!
Therefore, in the eyes of many people, Chelsea has actually locked a place in the top eight in advance.
Of course, the only one who really dares to say that they have advanced is Bayern Munich.
They swept Shakhtar Donetsk 7:0! I treated the Ukrainian to a bottle of 7-Up.
By the way, there are a lot of teams drinking 7-Up lately...
If such a disparity in the score is still overturned, then King Nan will not have to mess around in the arena.
Arsenal was slightly surprised to lose 1:3 at home to Monaco.
Of course, this Monaco team is actually full of famous players.
They have Berbatov, Moutinho, Kondogbia, Fabinho, Subasic, Carrasco, Kurzawa...etc.
There is even Henry’s future successor, Martial, who has not yet grown into the “horse factory director”!
Therefore, Arsenal's loss to them is indeed not particularly unfair.
There were no major surprises in the other games.
Basel 1:1 Porto.
Schalke 04 lost to Real Madrid 0:2.
Manchester City lost to Barcelona at home, the score was 1:2.
Juventus narrowly defeated Dortmund 2:1.
Hamburg defeated Atletico Madrid 1:0. Wu Lei scored the only goal of the game and took the lead.
For the British media, they are of course more concerned about the performance of the English team in the game.
Among them, Chelsea, which defeated the powerful Paris Saint-Germain 4:2 in an away game and almost advanced to the quarterfinals, was naturally highly praised.
Chelsea, led by Pan Yi, is the only team in the five major leagues to maintain an unbeaten record so far, and it is also the team with the highest points!
Their results are very stable and their lineup is quite complete. This makes no one doubt that Chelsea will be the strongest contender for the Champions League trophy this season.
More importantly, Pan Yi has always performed very stably in important games, and his performance in the Champions League during his coaching career has proven this.
Then, with Chelsea as a foil, Manchester City and Arsenal, who lost the first round, will inevitably be criticized verbally and in writing at the "meeting".
"Pellegrini and Wenger simply can't make their team compete with the European powers."
"England still has to rely on Chelsea to earn points in Europe!"
"If you want to fight Huang Saren, you still have to look at Chelsea!"
Real Madrid, Barcelona, and Bayern are the three strongest, best and most stable teams in European football today.
Chelsea also relied on its own performance to insert itself into the top three and became the "Samalanqi" top four.
In this year's latest Champions League winning odds, these four teams are also leading by a cliff.
For Pan Yi and his Chelsea, the focus of their research in the next game is of course the three teams of Huang Saren.
Especially Barcelona with bb.
Now the lineups of these two teams have really become perfect.
Real Madrid has assembled the three midfielders of BBC and Ceremony, as well as new World Cup stars like Ronaldo, and the backcourt also includes Marcelo, Ramos, Varane, Carvajal, Pepe, Casillas... All of them are top stars in the world.
Barcelona's msn and Habaib can also compete for the best striker combination and midfield combination in history. They also still have Rakitic, Pedro, Alba, Mascherano, Pique, Alba Weiss, Ter Stegen and other stars.
How should I put it, it's almost an all-star lineup.
When facing such a team, even the current Chelsea team really can't guarantee that they can win.
Therefore, Pan Yi and his coaching team still have to prepare in advance.
Of course, this is not particularly difficult for Pan Yi.
In addition to conducting more detailed research on the tactics of these coaches in the system, he also sent a technical team to watch the latest games of these teams, and then summarized them into tactical reports and fed back.
Then compare the two sides to see if there is any deviation from "history", and then Pan Yi will make certain corrections.
Now is the intelligence gathering stage for the technical team, so there is no need for Pan Yi to start work in a hurry.
After all, it’s still too late to wait for rounds of opponents to come out before doing detailed polishing!
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February 21, the twenty-sixth round of the Premier League.
Chelsea faced the challenge of Burnley at Stamford Bridge.
Since it was the second game in three days, Pan Yi rotated the team's starting lineup, but Chelsea, playing at home, still firmly took the initiative in the game from the beginning.
But it was Burnley who shot first, getting a chance to score with a counterattack in the sixth minute.
Chelsea waited until the 30th minute when Willian reached the left rib and received a direct pass from Chick, then turned and passed diagonally to Bamford in the middle.
At this time, the opponent's two central defenders made mistakes when they surrounded Bamford. Bamford took advantage of the situation and directly volleyed the ball with his left foot and sent the ball into Burnley's goal.
After that, both sides played more patiently. Chelsea firmly controlled the ball, and the success rate of passing and receiving was also very high. Burnley retreated across the board. It was not until the two sides entered the second half that Chelsea once again launched a threatening offensive.
In the 70th minute, Mikel made a cross. After Cancelo broke through from the left, he passed the ball calmly without any defense. Lingard volleyed from the back point and scored, making the score 2-0.
This is also Lingard's third consecutive game where he has scored!
This score was maintained until the end of the game.
Lingard kept scoring goals here, but Manchester United lost again.
They lost to Swansea 1:2 away from home.
Although Manchester United took the lead through Herrera's goal in the 28th minute, Ki Sung-yung and Gomi helped Swansea take the lead.
Such a contrast makes Manchester United fans not know how to complain.
After all, when Lingard did not play well in a game at Manchester United, the people who criticized him the most were the Manchester United fans...
Other key games are Crystal Palace 1:2 Arsenal, Tottenham 2:2 West Ham United, and Southampton 0:2 Liverpool.
Manchester City defeated Newcastle United 5-0 at home.
Therefore, after this round, Chelsea still tops the list with an impressive score of 25 wins, 1 draw and 76 points, and is far ahead.
In second place is Manchester City with 55 points, followed by Arsenal with 48 points and Manchester United with 47 points.
Following that are Southampton, Liverpool, Tottenham and West Ham United.
With a full 21-point lead, Chelsea's early victory has become a foregone conclusion. The biggest suspense is how long Manchester City can chase, or how big the final gap between first and second place is.
But this so-called "suspense" was quickly "revealed" in the next 27th round.
Chelsea defeated West Ham United 1:0 in an away game, achieving an economical victory and taking all three points.
Manchester City was defeated in a strong dialogue.
At Anfield, Liverpool defeated Manchester City 2:1 with goals from Henderson and Coutinho!
This result also widened the points gap between Chelsea and Manchester City to a terrifying 24 points!
Taking into account Chelsea's equally terrifying goal difference advantage, the media have said that Chelsea is likely to win the championship in advance in March!
And this will also make Chelsea the earliest team to win the Premier League title in history!
However, it is actually a bit difficult to achieve this goal.
Due to the Champions League and international matches, there are not enough Premier League games scheduled in March, which prevents Chelsea from gaining enough points.
After playing against West Ham United, Chelsea will return to Stamford Bridge for the second leg of the Champions League round of 16 knockout round.
At this time, their opponent Paris Saint-Germain was having a bit of a bad year.
In the past few rounds of Ligue 1, Paris Saint-Germain first drew with Lyon, the biggest competitor in the league, 1:1, then tied with Caen 2:2, and tied with Monaco 0:0...
As a result, after the 28th round of Ligue 1, their leading position was no longer guaranteed!
At this time, ranked first in the French Ligue 1 standings was Lyon with 17 wins, 6 draws, 5 losses and 57 points.
Although Paris Saint-Germain only lost two games, due to too many draws, it could only accumulate 56 points with 15 wins, 11 draws and 2 losses, ranking behind Lyon by one point.
In other words, they may even lose the French Ligue 1 championship!
This puts head coach Blanco under tremendous pressure.
You know, the Champions League games are important, but the league is the basic game!
Three days after the result of the second leg of the Champions League round of 16 against Chelsea, on March 14, Paris Saint-Germain will face another French national derby and challenge Marseille away from home.
This is a game that cannot be lost!
As we all know, there is really no friendship at all between Paris and Marseille.
The reason for the feud between the two can be traced back to the cultural conflict between the two places that began hundreds of years ago. First of all, Paris and Marseille are the first and second largest cities in France. The two cities are full of mutual contempt and prejudice. The people in the city also compete with each other and compete in every aspect.
On the football field, the hatred between the two officially originated from the collision between Paris Saint-Germain and Marseille on the field in the 1990s. It was intensified by the media fanning the fans and deepened in every friction between fans and teams. Every fight between players and every physical contact and trash talk between players.
The other most direct reason is that in the 1988-1989 season, Paris president Francis Borrell accused Marseille president Bernard Tapie of manipulating the game. As a result, Marseille was fined in 1993 and deprived of two championship honors and was forced to be relegated.
The top management of Marseille kept this hatred in mind and instilled it in the first team and players at all levels. Not to mention the fans, they wanted to eat the "Parisians" to their death.
Marseille does this to Paris, and Paris does the same to Marseille.
Therefore, at such a critical moment in the championship, if Blanco loses the French national derby that attracts everyone's attention, it is possible that he will pack up and leave immediately.
In such contrast, Blanco made a difficult decision.
That is to give up the Champions League and keep the league! ——In fact, it is to protect the coaching position.
After all, they lost the first round at home by two goals and gave Chelsea four away goals. This means that Paris must win by three goals in the away game to advance. This is undoubtedly an impossible goal. Task.
In addition, although Paris Saint-Germain is very eager to win the Champions League, it is indeed not a hard target at the moment.
After all, the Qatari consortium has only occupied Paris Saint-Germain in 2011. Everyone knows that it takes time to become a real giant.
It is simply unrealistic to expect any coach to win the Champions League in just a few years.
Based on the normal timeline of Pan Yi's previous life, several wealthy teams, namely Chelsea, won the first Champions League title in team history only after Abramovich took over nearly ten years ago.
Although teams such as Paris Saint-Germain and Manchester City have reached the finals, they are always one step away from the goal.
Therefore, it is actually very understandable for Blanco to make this decision.
Therefore, Paris Saint-Germain did not go all out at Stamford Bridge, but used many young players to train. In the end, they lost directly 0:3 and were eliminated with a total score of 2:7.
Of course, Blanco's decision proved to be justified afterwards.
Three days later, away from home at the Velodrome Stadium, PSG withstood the pressure.
Under the unfavorable situation of Marseille's French forward Gignac scoring two consecutive goals to take the lead, Paris fought back and took the lead. Yin Bu, Matu Yindi, and Marquinhos scored three goals in a row, and finally won by 3 :2 reversed the score.
While Paris Saint-Germain achieved a key victory in this French national derby, they also overtook Lyon, who lost to Nice, in points, and regained the top spot in the standings.
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The two rounds of the Champions League knockout round of 16 are completely over, and the Champions League quarter-finals are freshly announced.
In addition to Chelsea, who easily defeated Paris Saint-Germain with a total score of 7:2, the other two Premier League teams failed in the round of 16.
Manchester City once again lost to Barcelona 0:1, and although Arsenal defeated Monaco 2:0, they were still eliminated due to a small number of away goals.
In several other games, Bayern clearly gave up and advanced with a 0:0 score against Shakhtar Donetsk and a total score of 7:0;
Porto defeated Basel 4:0 and won with a total score of 5:1;
Real Madrid and Schalke 04 had an ups and downs goal battle. In the end, Real Madrid lost 3:4 to Schalke 04, but they still passed the test with a total score of 5:4;
Juventus defeated Dortmund 3:0 and advanced with a total score of 5:1.
Pan Yi's old club Hamburg lost 0:1 to Atletico Madrid in the away game.
Since Hamburg also won 1:0 in the first round, the two sides entered overtime and had a penalty shootout after neither achieved anything.
But it is a pity that Wu Lei and Lin Zhijian missed penalty kicks successively, while Atletico Madrid hit all of them.
As a result, Atletico Madrid eliminated Hamburg in a thrilling manner and won the last eight spots!
This also made Pan Yi's drama against his old club that many people were looking forward to come to nothing.
However, although Hamburg was eliminated as the defending champion, it is not easy considering that they can still get here despite serious blood loss this season.
Head coach Nagelsmann also said that although Wu Lei and Lin Zhijian missed the penalty kick, their performance in the game was very good.
Hamburg is currently still fighting for European qualification in the Bundesliga. He believes that the team will quickly come out of the shadow of being eliminated from the Champions League and continue to move forward towards the season goal!
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After the Champions League quarter-finals were decided, everyone's attention naturally focused on the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.
At 12 noon on March 20, Central European Time, the 2014-15 UEFA Champions League quarter-final draw ceremony will be held here.
Among the top eight, La Liga became the biggest winner, with three teams advancing, namely Real Madrid, Barcelona and Atletico Madrid, while Chelsea became the only one in the Premier League.
In addition, Juventus in Serie A, Porto in Portuguese Super League, Bayern Munich in Bundesliga, and Monaco in French Ligue 1 have all become representative teams in their respective leagues.
Of course, the most eye-catching aspect of the quarter-finals is the strong dialogue.
Chelsea, which has been unstoppable all the way, has naturally attracted a lot of attention. As the three most powerful "cosmic teams" in European football today, it is worth looking forward to whether Real Madrid, Barcelona and Bayern Munich will stage a peak showdown.
In addition, some people are optimistic about Juventus, which is also represented by Tevez, Pogba and Vidal.
Porto and Monaco will become the favorites. Everyone does not say it, but in their hearts they hope to meet them in the quarter-finals.
According to the Champions League draw rules, there will be no circumvention principles in the quarter-final draw. Teams in the same league and teams in the same group may meet in a narrow way.
The schedule starting from the quarterfinals has also been announced in advance.
This season’s Champions League quarter-finals will be held on April 14th, 15th, 21st, and 22nd.
After the semi-finals are determined, the draw for the semi-finals will be held on April 24, and the semi-final matches will be on May 5 and 6 and May 12 and 13.
The final two teams will compete for the championship trophy at the Olympic Stadium in Berlin, Germany on June 6!
Before the draw, Bayern Munich head coach Guardiola said in an interview with the media that he was not surprised at all that the team could advance to the quarterfinals because he was convinced that the team had enough strength to advance and even go further.
"Last season our results in the Champions League were not very satisfactory, so this season we have higher requirements for ourselves, and that is the championship."
"This year's final will be held in Germany, which is beneficial to us. Because it is definitely much more convenient for us to go from Munich to Berlin than from Madrid, Barcelona or London."
Guardiola's loud declaration also attracted a lot of media attention. As for the other seven opponents in the quarter-finals, Guardiola said he had no pressure.
"There is no doubt that the teams that can enter the quarter-finals are all excellent, but we believe that Bayern is the best team."
"A lot of people are praying and saying it's best to avoid Chelsea, but I don't think it's necessary."
"Chelsea is not as strong as we thought. We have enough strength to ensure that we have a chance to continue to advance when we encounter any opponent."
Guardiola did not deny what media reporters said, hoping to draw Chelsea.
"There are only eight teams left in the Champions League so far. It is possible to encounter any opponent. All I can say is that we don't mind drawing any team, including Chelsea."
Guardiola's remarks were quickly reported by outside media, and they were interpreted as another invitation to fight for Pan Yi.
After all, when Pan Yi was in the Bundesliga, he caused a lot of "damage" to Guardiola, and even took away the Bundesliga championship that everyone thought he had in hand.
But this season, Guardiola poached Pan Yi's favorite De Bruyne, and the team's strength has been further improved.
Therefore, Guashuai now has the confidence to challenge Pan Yi again!
Guardiola vs. Pan Yi is obviously very interesting, so the media also hyped it up.
However, this time the final drawing result did not choose this "drawing method with the most traffic".
Bayern Munich drew the "soft persimmon" Porto.
Barcelona was allocated another "big gift package" Monaco.
Among the remaining four teams, two teams from Madrid were drawn together, and they are about to stage a city derby!
This will be the most anticipated focus of the quarter-finals.
So, the final pair is Chelsea vs. Juventus.
In fact, this pair is also very interesting.
Because the current head coach of Juventus is Allegri!
A direct showdown between the former Milan coach and the former Milan assistant.
This knockout match seems to prove who was the team's leader when AC Milan won the Triple Crown! ——Although it seemed to have been proven when Hamburg faced Milan.
But of course the media will continue to hype such topics.
In addition, there are gossips saying that Allegri's daughter Valentina is "living together" with Pan Yi. This is another son-in-law derby! The topic is also full.
However, after being drawn against Chelsea, Allegri did not show the "ambition" he deserved.
He believes that Chelsea's form this season is unbelievably good and it will be difficult for any team to encounter them.
Although Juventus is currently enjoying smooth sailing in Serie A and has successfully left its biggest rivals Roma behind, it is really unpleasant to encounter such a tough match in the Champions League.
Allegri's words also hinted at the pessimism about the quarter-finals.
In fact, this is also a reflection of the Serie A team's recent decline in European competitions, and even Allegri is a little unsure.
Not to mention anything else, Juventus reaching the quarterfinals this season is already the best result for a Serie A team in recent years - before that it was Milan's Triple Crown.
What's the saying recently?
If you are young and don’t work hard, you will go to the international community when you grow up; if you have difficulties in life, you will go to Milan; if you only defend but not attack, you will join Juventus...
However, Pan Yi said in an interview with the media that Allegri's team should not be underestimated.
"He is one of the most experienced coaches in Europe. The experience of winning the Triple Crown is not something that just anyone can have. And they get stronger when they encounter strong ones. Juventus will be a headache for them. .”
When asked about Guardiola's remarks, Pan Yi smiled and said:
"I never thought Guardiola meant what he said in the media. I interpreted it as a bluff. Maybe he should be relieved now that we were not drawn together."
This is actually Pan Yi's ridicule to Guardiola.
After all, the relationship between the two is very good in private, and they often chat through social software. Sometimes Gua Shuai will suddenly call Pan Yi because of some tactical issues.
As for why you want to talk in the media? It’s just necessary for work!
After the draw results for the Champions League quarter-finals were released, major European betting companies have offered the latest odds.
Since Bayern and Barcelona drew weaker opponents respectively, they immediately became the favorites to win the championship.
Then there are Chelsea and Real Madrid.
The main reason is that compared to Huang Saren, both the media and professional betting companies still think Chelsea's lineup is still a little immature.
Chelsea's flat performance in the Premier League has also become a weakness at this time. Some people think that young people have not withstood the harsh test and will not be able to withstand the pressure when they really encounter strong teams in the Champions League.
Many people believe that it will be difficult for Chelsea to cross the Juventus hurdle.
After all, Allegri has grasped both Juventus' offense and defense very well this season. Although his three-back system looks a bit like Pan Yi's Chelsea, it has indeed produced very good results.
Juventus's ability to enter the quarterfinals of the Champions League and to be 10 points ahead of Roma in Serie A is definitely not due to luck.
If Chelsea's new recruits lose their composure when they meet the veterans of Serie A, anything is possible.
An old woman.
What he is best at is using his rich experience to toss and impress young people with various postures...
