As the saying goes, changing the coach is like changing the knife, Chelsea has changed a lot since Tuchel took office, although there is no big win, but the overall performance and state have changed compared to the previous Lampard era. In the early morning of Beijing time on the 12th, the 5th round of the FA Cup this season was another game, Chelsea won 1-0 away to Barnsley, and forward Tammy Abraham broke the deadlock and broke the siege on the goal line, which was the biggest contributor to the team's victory. Chelsea will face Sheffield United in the quarter-finals.
Although the opponent's strength is not strong, Chelsea's history has lost two FA Cup away games against Barnsley, and that is chelsea's only 2 defeats in the last 9 meetings between the two sides, with the remaining 7 games, 5 wins and 2 draws. Chelsea rotated as many as 10 men, with only Christensen continuing to start. Although the score seems to be a small 1-0 win, in fact, Chelsea occupies the initiative, and the main statistics such as the possession rate and the number of passes are led by them. The FA Cup quarter-finals are currently out, except for Chelsea, Manchester United meet Leicester City, Manchester City meet Everton are hard battles, Southampton to Bournemouth is relatively easy.
Later on the 11th, French giants Paris Saint-Germain officially announced that Brazilian star Neymar suffered a secondary damage to the adductor muscle and will not qualify for the first leg of the Champions League match with Barca next week. According to reporters, Neymar will be absent for 4 weeks, and it is uncertain whether he will be able to play in the second leg of the match against Barca on March 11. A day earlier, Neymar had been brought down by a Caen defender in a French Cup match, and with a distressed expression on his face, he was subsequently replaced by Kylian Mbappe.
The official announcement of the Napoli club in Serie A, the team's manager Gattuso announced that he will resign is false news. Recently, on foreign social media, an official account signed Gattuso posted a long article announcing that Gattuso would resign after the match between Napoli and Juve. Napoli issued an official announcement statement in response to the news: "Napoli hereby reminds the team's head coach Gattuso that there is no authorized official account on various social media, and all accounts signed as Gnaró Ivan Gattuso are managed by a third party. Therefore, the club will not hold Gattuso personally responsible, and this news is not true. "Although it has been debunked, Gattuso's life in the team is really not good, napoli is currently only in the 6th place in the league, there is a certain gap from people's expectations, if there is no good performance, it is also very likely to be fired.
Text/Beijing Youth Daily reporter Zhang Kunlong
Editor/Yingchuan Zhang