On April 21, after playing away against Murcia, Mallorca's entire team immediately rushed to London to prepare for the first leg of the Champions League semi-finals.

Their opponent is Chelsea. This is the second time that Mallorca met Chelsea in the Champions League semi-finals after meeting with Chelsea in the Champions League semi-finals in the 20405 season. Before that, Mallorca met Chelsea in the 20506 season in the 2006 season and met in the group stage in the 20607 season... In other words, after that, Mallorca met Chelsea in the 2007 Championship every year, and UEFA has taken great pains to do so.

When it comes to revenge, Mallorca has definitely claimed too much. After being eliminated from the Champions League final by Chelsea, they defeated Chelsea for two consecutive years and then won the Champions League championship. So after arriving in London this time, the two sides seemed to have no grudges...

The most important thing is that everyone thinks that Mourinho and Jose were fighting each other in the past. Jose beat Mourinho a lot, and Mourinho also gave him a heavy blow. However, Mourinho has terminated his contract with Chelsea before the start of this season. Without this highlight, it seems that it is just an ordinary Champions League semi-final.

After all, everyone knows that Chelsea, without Mourinho, seems to have a lack of glory. Under Grant's leadership, although Chelsea entered the semi-finals of the Champions League, they have lost their magic power in the past.

"Murinho? I can't say that I miss him very much, because Chelsea with him is a very difficult opponent, and every time I deal with him, I feel very sad. But to be honest, Chelsea without Mourinho is like a dish without salt, boring," Jose replied in an interview.

And to that Israeli coach Grant, Jose fully demonstrated his attitude.

"Chelsea? I don't think Chelsea has a coach now. A great coach's imprint on a team may be eliminated, but it will not be eliminated so easily. Even if Chelsea will get some results this year, it is just Mourinho's legacy. Even if there is no coach to lead the team, these players can still get the results they should have. They are Premier League champions and Champions League champions."

Jose expressed his contempt for Grant without any concealment. Perhaps it was because of a coach's resonance. Jose and Mourinho have many differences, but their common point is that they have strong control. They must take everything into their hands and do not like any constraints - because they all firmly believe that only by doing it in their own way is the most beneficial to the team!

Grant entered the locker room as Abu's direct subordinate, playing a role called technical support as surveillance. It would be strange if Mourinho would give him a good face. If Jose changed, he would not have a good face, although Jose could not have a candidate to monitor himself.

Jose said this, which is to help Mourinho stand up for trouble, but he still wants to disrupt Chelsea's locker room. After all, Chelsea's locker room is definitely not calm now. Mourinho's three years of operation at Chelsea almost made the locker room like a solid piece. If Terry hadn't stood on the chairman's side at a critical moment, Abraham might not have dared to fire Mourinho immediately. Even so, the direct descendants of Mourinho such as Lampard, Drogba, etc. are still dissatisfied with the new head coach. The efforts in the game are just because they are professional players...

When Jose was interviewed, he raised his praise for Chelsea players infinitely, and at the same time directly ignored their current head coach Grant, in order to make Chelsea's locker room more confrontational. A team that is not united, even if they fight desperately on the court, cannot pose too much threat to an equally powerful and concerted team.

After hearing Jose's interview, Grant's anger broke out completely.

"When I took over, Chelsea ranked ninth in the league, now we are second, and there is only a three-point difference from Manchester United, which is the first. When I took over, Chelsea encountered a draw in the Champions League group stage. After I took over, I immediately won three consecutive victories and led the team to the semi-finals. I don't know why my efforts are always ignored, maybe because I can't make a show? But now it's me who sits in this position! Those who underestimate me and Chelsea will pay the price!"

After hearing Grant's response, Jose immediately responded: "I have never underestimated Chelsea. Chelsea has caused us a lot of trouble every year in the past three years. He grabbed the Champions League championship and we won very carefully every time we win. If I underestimate them, I would underestimate my Mallorca. Obviously, this is not me."

From Mallorca to London and to the first leg of the Champions League semi-finals, it was only two days before the battle of words could not play much. So after two round-trip encounters, both sides began to quit and prepare for the next game.

Although he kept despising Grant, Jose never underestimated this guy in his heart. This is a coach with excellent theoretical knowledge. Maybe he can only talk about it on paper, but Chelsea is a team built by Mourinho for three years, which can allow Grant to maximize his tactical ability. This group of Chelsea players were at their peak, otherwise they would not have had any cracks in the locker room. Some players did not obey the coach's command and rushed to the semi-finals of the Champions League, and even chased Manchester United in the league.

Such a Chelsea team certainly has their strong strength. In the three seasons led by Mourinho, they won two Premier League championships, one Champions League championship, and one Champions League semi-finals. Although they did not seem to have achieved particularly brilliant results, everyone admits that Chelsea is the hardest bone to chew!

Even Mallorca, who has the best teeth, has to admit this. Mallorca's most difficult opponent in the Champions League is not Barcelona, ​​which performed well before, but this steel team Chelsea!

No matter how outstanding Barcelona performed in the season before the World Cup, they only caused trouble for Mallorca in one season. What about Chelsea? They were Mallorca's most troubled opponents for three seasons! If Chelsea hadn't been killed by Liverpool last season, Mallorca might have won even more headaches in the final!

Faced with such a headache-inducing team, Jose not only disrupted their morale before, but also made a lot of preparations for this game.

When April 23 arrived, both sides announced their lineup at the same time.

Mallorca's main lineup has all appeared, including Van der Sar, Macon, Riser, Matthias, Pepe, Senna, Alonso, Barack, Kaka, Henry, Klose - this is a lineup that is not inferior to Chelsea in terms of strength and running. Everyone's confrontation and running abilities are quite excellent, which is in sharp contrast to the substitute offensive lineup.

It is difficult to deal with when Mallorca has power because they have no weaknesses. Although this main lineup is not young in the attack line, it is still in a very top-notch state.

Chelsea also produced all the elites. They did not lose much in the quarterfinals. Goalkeeper Cech, defender Essin changed to right-back, left-back Ashley Cole, and the central defender partners are still Terry and Carvalho. In the midfield, Marklele dragged behind, Mikel replaced Essin's position, Lampard broke through, and Joe Cole and Carau shared the two wings on the front line, and Drogba broke through.

However, compared with previous seasons, Chelsea's strength has indeed declined a lot this season. This summer, because of the bad relationship with Mourinho, Abram refused to sign up for Mourinho, but instead sold Robben and Duff, and only introduced Pizarro and Maluda for free. The only four prominent wingers left at that time was Joe Kerr. The overall lineup and bench thickness were much worse than before.

Stamford Bridge Stadium is still full, but compared with Chelsea's current status, Stamford Bridge Stadium, which can only accommodate more than 40,000 people, seems to be a little smaller. Sometimes Chelsea fans will complain about Abu - aren't you very rich? How good is it to help us build a new stadium of 50,000 or 60,000 people? Look at the Jose, who has no money and has built such a large stadium, and has not asked fans to raise funds...

However, after all, Abu's takeover has turned Chelsea from a quasi-first-class team into a truly first-class team and a giant. Even if they have this dissatisfaction, they will not express it.

Chelsea fans are in a very complicated mood about Mourinho's departure. They like Mourinho very much, two league champions and one Champions League champion. These are great achievements that make up for the gap in Chelsea's history. The Champions League champion won is the first Champions League champion in history for the London team, which is enough to make Chelsea fans feel proud in front of fans such as Arsenal Tottenham in the same city!

However, as an English fan, only loyal to the team's ideas made them unable to fight against Chairman Abu clearly, so in this incident, they were just silent and looking silently at where Chelsea will go next...

The Champions League reached the semi-finals and the league also followed Manchester United, which made them begin to feel that it seems that it is understandable to fire Mourinho. After all, if the head coach and the chairman are not in harmony, it will be of no benefit to the team in the end. Since Abraham cannot leave, Mourinho's departure seems to be inevitable...

The current Chelsea fans are undoubtedly quite confused, and the entire team is also extremely confused. In this situation, they met the powerful Mallorca. Stamford Bridge is looking forward to the team reaching the finals again and winning the second Champions League championship - and Mourinho, who is on vacation, remains silent. He cannot cheer for Grant, but he still has a deep affection for Chelsea.

When the referee blew the whistle at the beginning of the game, Chelsea fans let go of this entanglement and began to shout loudly, cheering loudly for their team!

On the court, Mallorca, who was the first to kick off, has begun to pass back and forth in the midfield and gradually launch an attack.

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