On Wednesday, January 21, the first leg of the League Cup semi-finals.

Chelsea challenged Bolton away.

As soon as the game began, the Blues, with a strong morale, took the lead and launched a crazy pressing and oppressing Bolton.

Just one minute into the game, Lampard intercepted the ball in the frontcourt and completed the cooperation for Good Johnson, volleying near the penalty spot, opening the first record for Chelsea and opening the door to victory.

This goal completely shocked the home team's fans and also surprised all the media reporters chasing Chelsea to the away game. But what shocked them even more was that after the goal, Lampard turned around and rushed to the sidelines, hugging head coach Gao Han hard, and the two looked very close.

Not only all the fans and reporters at the scene, but even the audience in front of the TV were shocked.

The media has been rumored that Lampard and Gao Han are having a quarrel and are about to leave the team?

Even his agent frequently contacted other teams, especially Manchester United, and even Ferguson said things to welcome Lampard in person, but what is going on now?

But on the court, Chelsea ignored the other people's ideas at all and still suppressed Bolton.

In the ninth minute, Parker scored another goal, but he still made an attack in the back row and attacked a long shot from the outside of the penalty area.

With two goals in a row, Chelsea was in an amazing state.

Just eight minutes later, Good Johnson received a cross from Robben from the left in the penalty area and scored a shot from the penalty area, scoring Chelsea's third goal in the game.

In just seventeen minutes, Chelsea's offensive shocked everyone, and even the on-site commentator of the TV station exclaimed that even the team composed of substitutes and youth team players had such attack power. Who else could withstand such a powerful Chelsea?

Perhaps it was after the strong attack that Chelsea relaxed, and soon Bolton used Okocha's goal to score a goal.

But after the second half, the Blues continued to suppress their opponents, and in the 74th and 80th minutes, with the goals of Fabregas and Lampard, they broke Bolton five-to-one and basically advanced to the finals ahead of schedule.

At the post-match press conference, Gao Han highly affirmed the players' performance in this game, especially Lampard, who was re-elected as the best player in the game, who gave a very high evaluation and praised the English midfielder in public.

What made the media reporters come and have fun was that Lampard also praised the head coach Gao Han when he was interviewed by a familiar reporter after the game. He changed his attitude of never evaluating the head coach in the past and rated the head coach as the best coach in European football today.

This also made media reporters notice Chelsea's change.

As expected, two days after the League Cup semi-finals, Lampard's agent said in an interview with the media that all the rumors about Lampard's transfer were false news. Lampard was loyal to Chelsea and had never considered leaving the team.

Chelsea officials also publicly stated that Lampard is a crucial member of the team and the team will not accept any team's offer. At the same time, it also stated that the team will restart the contract renewal negotiations with Lampard in the near future.

This statement from both sides can basically determine that Lampard will continue to stay at Chelsea.

Many teams that intend to poach, including Manchester United, were disappointed.

Perhaps stimulated by the promise of renewal, in just one day, Lampard's goal status continued to be prosperous in the FA Cup final 32 knockout match, and once again scored twice, helping the team to defeat Skabrough five-to-zero away.

This team with little reputation is the largest dark horse in this FA Cup so far. It comes from the amateur league and is the only amateur team to reach the top 32, but was slaughtered by Chelsea.

Arsenal, who also performed well was also Arsenal.

He is too far behind Chelsea in the league, and Wenger has obviously increased his attention to the League Cup and the FA Cup. It is amazing that the Gunners' opponents are Middlesbrough in the League Cup semi-finals and the FA Cup top 32 knockout matches.

In other words, you will encounter Middlesbrough three times in a week.

In the previous semi-finals of the League Cup, Arsenal encountered a tenacious sniper from Middlesbrough, who sent all his main players to play. He won a small goal at home, but in the FA Cup match, Arsenal also won four to one.

It is not difficult to see from the two games that Middlesbrough focused all his energy in the League Cup and gave up the FA Cup.

As it turns out, Middlesbrough did cause considerable trouble for Arsenal in the second leg of the League Cup, especially in the first half, Middlesbrough's home advantage was very obvious.

Even in the first half stoppage time, Cenden created a threat on the wing and created chaos in the penalty area. Arsenal veteran central defender Keon was sent off with a red card, allowing Arsenal to play one less person in the entire second half.

The subsequent game was natural, with Middlesbrough scoring two goals in the 69th and 77th minutes.

But just when everyone thought Middlesbrough would enter the final, Wenger made a substitution adjustment at the critical moment. The Spanish young player Reyes, who was introduced during the winter break, scored a crucial goal and dragged the game into overtime.

However, neither side was able to perform well in overtime. Arsenal, who had one less player, was forced to defend and counterattack, and finally defended the score to the end. With the away goals, he eliminated Middlesbrough and successfully advanced to the final.

The finals are scheduled on the last Sunday and the 29th of February, and the competition venue is held at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, which is also the venue for the finals of the England Cup since the remodel of Wembley Stadium.

Chelsea and Arsenal both met at the League Cup final, which also brought this unrespected cup to the horizon of Premier League fans all over the world.

But Gao Han and Wenger have no time to pay attention to this final, because three days after the second leg of the semi-finals, the Premier League ushered in the 23rd round.

Chelsea, who had just defeated Bolton at home in the second leg of the League Cup semi-finals, returned to the Premier League and continued to attack and sent all the main players to play, defeated Blackburn 3-0 away.

Etoo scored twice, and Ibrahimovic also scored a goal.

But the good times didn't last long. In another game that followed, Arsenal defeated Manchester City 2-1 at home, and Henry scored the team's second goal.

In this way, in the Premier League scorer list, Henry continued to lead with 18 goals, Etoo ranked second with 17 goals, Hiller ranked third with 16 goals, Van Nistroy ranked fourth with 15 goals, Ibrahimovic and Saha, who just transferred to Manchester United, both scored fourteen goals, tied for fifth.

Compared to the top in the league, the excitement on the scorer list has become the focus of media reporters.

Especially Gao Han and media reporters’ bets before the season have made the media across England anxious.

Seeing Etoo approaching Henry step by step, Ibrahimovic followed closely behind, which made the English media worried, fearing that if they lost, they would apologize.

A week later, in the 24th round of the Premier League, Chelsea beat Charlton 2-0 at home, and Van der Sar performed very well, winning the applause of Stamford Bridge fans in many consecutive rounds.

Etoo and Ibrahimovic's goal momentum remained unabated, and they continued to score both goals.

In this round, Arsenal defeated Wolves 3-1 away, and Henry also scored a goal and continued to suppress Etoo on the scorer list.

But Manchester United beat Everton four-3 away.

Ferguson's team was led by three goals, and then he narrowly beat Everton with Van Nisstruy's final goal.

Van Nistroy and Saha both scored twice.

This also made the media reporters after the game carnival, because with this goal, Van Nistruy once again caught up with Henry and Etoo with 17 goals, and the three of them had only one goal difference.

But Saha tied Alan Sheiler with 16 goals, trampling Ibrahimovic, who scored 15 goals.

Therefore, after this round of game, the British media praised Manchester United, believing that the Red Devils had two major shooters and their attack power was better than Chelsea.

But Gao Han scoffed at this remark, believing that this was a fantasy of having fun in pain after losing the league.

"At least half of the credit of Sakha's goal should be Fulham, but Etoo and Ibrahimovic's goals were all scored at Chelsea. They are the well-deserved best forward combination in the Premier League."

"I can understand the minds of some people who want to hit me and my players, but I want to say, we won't be fooled, I can guarantee that they will score more goals!"

As it turns out, Gao Han's words are not exaggerated at all.

Three days after playing Charlton, the 25th round of the Premier League was ushered in, and Chelsea defeated Portsmouth 2-0 away.

Ibrahimovic and Etoo each scored one goal.

But in this round, Henry scored twice, helping Arsenal defeat Southampton 2-0.

Van Nisstrui also scored one goal, but Manchester United lost to Middlesbrough 2-3 at home.

Judging from the current situation in the Premier League, Chelsea has been ahead of the league and has basically won the league championship. Arsenal continues to hold the second place in the league, and Manchester United gradually falls to third place in the league.

There is basically no suspense in the top three teams, only fourth in the league, including Liverpool, Newcastle, Birmingham, Charlton, Fulham and Bolton, and even Tottenham Hotspur and Aston Villa, there are opportunities and the competition is very fierce.

On the scorer list, Henry scored twenty-one goals, suppressing Etoo who scored nineteen goals with two goals.

Van Nistroy ranked third with eighteen goals.

Although Saha started this round, he failed to score. Instead, Ibrahimovic scored a goal and finally caught up. Together with Alan Sheiler, he ranked fourth with sixteen league goals.

Veteran Alan Shearer scored a tide of goals before the winter break, but his condition plummeted after the winter break. The situation seems to be very unoptimistic.

On the contrary, Henry, Van Nistruei, Etoo and Ibrahimovic have very stable goals.

But for British media reporters, they didn't care about anything else, but were all focused on betting with Gao Han.

In their opinion, as long as Henry can win the Scorer King, even if Gao Han leads Chelsea to win the championship, he will lose.

So everyone looked at the 26th round of the Premier League.

After twenty-five rounds, the national team training camp was ushered in, and then another major and critical battle was ushered in.
Chapter completed!