With a solid defense, Leeds United held on to the 1-0 score and entered the halftime break.
In the locker room, after everyone listened to the instructions from head coach George Lee, they began to drink water, rest and chat.
There was plenty of small talk about what happened in the first half.
"That Barak is really difficult to deal with. He's always following me."
"Me too, that Essien is also clinging to me, like a fly."
"You're okay, look at this. Carvalho would have kicked me to pieces. His feet are worse than mine."
As he spoke, Kevin Davis would pull off his socks to show everyone.
The players and coaches were all in twos and threes, talking and talking about the two most exciting things in the first half.
One is the celebration after De Jong scored, and the other is Woodgate's ultimate clearance. Especially that extreme clearance made everyone get closer to Woodgate, the Leeds United veteran.
Matteisen said desperately that if the ball was really kicked in by Shevchenko, then he would be criticized by the head coach. It was his mistake at that time that gave the opponent a chance.
Only little Schmeichel was called to the corner by his father. He continued to turn on the stove and kept pointing out some of his minor problems in the first half.
Another goalkeeper coach, Martin, stood aside to help supplement.
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Compared with the harmony of the Leeds United dressing room, the home team Chelsea's dressing room seems a bit noisy.
Mourinho kept talking about the team's problems in the first half, and he was very loud.
But not many players below listened carefully.
Shevchenko and Drogba had an argument about the goal that was not scored in the first half. Drogba said that the ball could have been passed to him, and there was no one there at the time. But the Ukrainian said there was nothing wrong with his approach. As a forward, how could he pass the ball to an empty goal?
And Lampard also kept telling Joe Cole to pass the ball more and not to get caught in the opponent's siege.
As for Terry, he found two full-backs and asked them to insert more, not too far back, to put pressure on Leeds United's wing.
"Shut up!"
Mourinho found that the dressing room was like a vegetable market, so he motioned for everyone to listen to him.
After everyone calmed down, Mourinho continued his arrangement.
In the corner, Dutch winger Robben looked at everyone quietly, and then listened to the coach's tactical arrangements. He longed to hear his name.
However, he was disappointed. Mourinho did not hear his name during the break, but kept emphasizing other issues.
Until the beginning of the second half, Robben didn't hear his name, so he walked out with the team.
As he almost reached the door, he was stopped by Mourinho.
"Aryan, you may need to play in the second half, remember to warm up."
"good."
Robben followed Mourinho's instructions and began to slowly warm up along the sidelines at the beginning of the second half, watching the progress of the game on the field.
He saw that Drogba was really restricted by Leeds United today. Just a central defender who was returned by Real Madrid made his teammates very embarrassed. Needless to say, no matter whether he was on the left or the right, he was at least beaten. The two of them were watching Shevchenko.
The ball can only come through the middle, and Chelsea's two full-backs simply cannot cope with the task of attacking and defending at the same time. Just when you want to go up, you will find someone sneaking behind you, so you have to come back.
"Aryan, Aryan."
Just when Robben was looking at it, the team's assistant coach asked Robben to go back.
Robben knew that the head coach was going to play on his own. He couldn't open up the situation in the middle, so he could only make a fuss from the side.
"You go up and replace Drogba, and then whether you play from the left or the right, play them on the wing..."
Mourinho quickly assigned Robben a task before he came on the field.
After hearing this, Robben began to walk towards the place where substitutions were made in the middle.
Halfway through, I heard amazing cheers from the home fans.
"Roar~"
Obviously Chelsea scored.
Robben was grabbed halfway through the game. Mourinho had no time to celebrate the goal, so he pulled Robben back and wanted to cancel the substitution.
Robben, who didn't understand what was happening, was pulled back to the bench.
Although he was angry, Robben did not show it immediately.
Equally angry are Mourinho and all other Chelsea players and fans.
Because the goal was disallowed by the referee.
Robben looked up at the courtside screen. It turned out that Lampard received Drogba's back pass when he scored the goal just now, and broke through the gate guarded by Schmeichel with a long shot.
However, the linesman signaled that Drogba was already offside when he received the ball.
The fans at the scene kept booing the referee.
And Robben stood up again and was ready to play.
I had to make a substitution just now because I had to play on the wing; then I pulled myself back, maybe because after scoring a goal, I found that the original tactics on the field were feasible; but in the end the goal was canceled, should I let myself change again? .
Robben thought so, but Mourinho didn't.
After looking back at Robben, Mourinho motioned for Robben to sit down. He decided to continue his main midfield tactics.
Robben sighed and could only sit down.
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In a bar 3 kilometers outside Stamford Bridge, Chelsea fans inside were also lamenting the disallowed goal.
The toasts turned into curses on the referee.
In the corner, Robben's agent, who is also Arjen Robben's father, also sighed.
Others were pity that Chelsea's goal was disallowed, but he was pity because his son could have played, but was suddenly pulled back by the head coach.
Old Robben took a sip of beer.
I looked at the time and saw that it wasn’t going up or down, so it seemed like I had to wait a while.
Originally, the old Robben was someone who had surpassed Real Madrid. We watched this game together and talked about the feasibility of Robben going to Real Madrid after this season.
But just now, he received a call. Someone at Real Madrid had changed his mind. Something had to happen and the date of the interview had to be changed to tomorrow.
The old Robben was very disgusted with this kind of behavior, and his favorability towards Real Madrid instantly dropped a lot.
However, after taking another sip of beer, old Robben began to feel that he was smarter again. Fortunately, he had made preparations, and the club he made an appointment with was not just Real Madrid.
Just as old Robben continued to watch the live game on TV, two men in suits came to him.
"Mr. Robben?"
"Who are you?" Robben glanced at the other party.
"I'm Steve Walsh, we met at Chelsea before. The guy next to me who has the same name as me is also called Steve, and he is Mr. Steve Lee from the transfer department."
"You two Steves, please take a seat."
"Haha~" Walsh also sat down and ordered two glasses of beer.
After the beer was served, neither party spoke, but watched the game on TV together until the end of the game. Leeds United defeated Chelsea 1-0 away from home.
George Lee completed his first kill against Chelsea in the league after taking office.
"Now, we can start talking."
Walsh noticed that after the game, the fans in the bar began to leave one after another, and he began to make suggestions to the old Robben.
