Chapter 343 Trippier's Brilliant Debut

Lukaku finally left Chelsea. On the third day after the Community Shield match, he went to the Carrington training base with great expectations.

Chelsea and Manchester United also issued an official announcement that morning, announcing Lukaku's transfer.

Manchester United paid a transfer fee of 65 million pounds, and also signed a clause to give Chelsea Lukaku a share of the second transfer.

It stands to reason that Manchester United does not need to pay such a high price to get Lukaku.

But when Paris Saint-Germain, a big crocodile in the transfer market recently, also cast its eyes on Lukaku, Manchester United's senior executives could not sit still.

After all, the group of oil men in Paris are really not short of money!

As soon as they left the field, the 70 million and 80 million bids were like playing, completely disrespecting the objective laws of the transfer market.

In order to avoid more trouble, Manchester United could only pinch their noses and quickly reach a deal with Chelsea.

As soon as Lukaku left, Salah officially became the striker with the first appearance order on the bench.

He is now like Lukaku before, he can play as a left or right winger, and his reverse cross and shooting skills have improved a lot compared to a year ago.

Even if Chelsea does not fight on four fronts like last season, and focuses only on the league and Champions League, Salah will not have less playing time.

35 appearances throughout the season, 20 starts are certain.

This is also the promise made by the Chelsea coaching staff before the start of the new season, allowing him to renew his contract with peace of mind.

As for Gnabry, this season he mainly played in the two cup competitions in England, and it was enough to get a total of 15 appearances in the league and Champions League.

Li Ang was very optimistic about him in an interview, and also praised his talent as being top in football like Lukaku.

But to be honest, in terms of physical confrontation and endurance, the 20-year-old Gnabry is still not as good as the 20-year-old Lukaku.

Two seasons ago, Lukaku had already proved himself in the Premier League.

He was able to score 17 goals in a single season when he was loaned to West Bromwich Albion. Even though he had defects in positioning and tactical awareness, his confrontation ability was unquestionable.

Gnabry, by contrast, needs more time to grow.

As a speed winger, he now needs more protective training and growth.

This is also a good thing for his entire career.

After two seasons, he will fully adapt to the intensity and rhythm of the Premier League, and his skills will be further improved. Then he will be able to fight for a starting position.

It is a good thing to become famous at a young age, but it is not necessarily a good thing to play too many games in the most competitive league in youth.

Bale and Walcott, who played in the Premier League, are very vivid examples.

They are not yet at the age of retirement, but now they are already injured and can't play many games in the whole season. They have to recuperate for a long time.

The previous method of training talented players that overdraws talent is no longer feasible in the new era of football.

Gnabry himself understands that Chelsea values ​​his talent, but will not abuse his talent.

Compared with Arsenal, Chelsea is now willing to develop a targeted growth plan for him and give him enough playing time in the Premier League and Champions League.

He can't find another top team in today's football world that is willing to give him such training conditions.

So he is now very comfortable staying in Chelsea, without any worries like when he was in Arsenal, thinking about which league to go to in the future to continue training and growth.

Like them, the proud children who came out of the youth training camp of the powerful team will naturally get more team attention and training privileges than other players who climbed up from the lower leagues.

So compared with Gnabry's confidence and confidence, Trippier, who was introduced by Chelsea from Burnley this summer window, seems to be somewhat lacking in self-confidence.

But this is not his fault. After all, from the perspective of youth training, he came from Manchester City, which was only ranked in the middle of the Premier League.

He was not the kind of "young genius" that attracted attention among the young players trained at the same time.

He eventually failed to get a first-team contract with Manchester City, but was loaned out to the Championship again and again to train.

From Barnsley to Burnley, and then to finally leaving Manchester City and joining Burnley.

He spent four full seasons in the Championship to make a name for himself, but he was only a little famous in the Championship.

When he played in the Premier League for the first time with the team last season, he was already 24 years old.

This does not seem to be a story of a down-and-out genius turning over a new leaf.

Because there has never been a genius in football who played in the top league for the first time at the age of 24.

The representative of late bloomers, Klose, was only 22 years old when he played in the Bundesliga for the first time. At the age of 24, Klose was already the Bundesliga's local top scorer and best rookie.

Trippier did not have high expectations for his future career development.

He just wanted to stay in the Premier League, and when he reached the peak of his career, he could play as a substitute for several powerful teams in the Premier League, and it would be great if he could retire in the Premier League.

As a result, just after he spent his first full Premier League career, his dream, which he expected to achieve in three or four years, was achieved ahead of schedule!

The moment he received the call from Mourinho, he was extremely glad that he chose to become a full-back.

If he were an offensive player, he would not be in the eyes of Chelsea's coaching staff at this moment.

His full attendance at the right back position last season and good defensive performance finally brought him this dream contract.

After moving to London, he did not overly immerse himself in the joy of transferring to Chelsea, nor did he spend too much time celebrating with his family.

He had resumed training alone before the start of Chelsea's pre-season training.

After training with his new teammates, he completed the training plan formulated by the coaching staff every day without any discount.

In terms of training, he is definitely not comparable to Li Ang, the physical madman in Chelsea.

But in terms of commitment and diligence, he is also in the top five in Chelsea.

And now, his training performance has brought him another surprise.

After the Community Shield match, before Chelsea and Fiorentina played the last International Champions Cup friendly before the start of the new season, he was qualified to start!

This is the first time he has started in a friendly match since he joined Chelsea!

Although he didn't get any personal data in the International Champions Cup match against Fiorentina in the end.

He just did his defensive work diligently, which looked inconspicuous, and he couldn't be compared with Gnabry who scored goals in the game.

But after the training one day before the official start of the new season, in the list reading of assistant coach Holland.

Gnabry, who made a big splash in the last friendly match, failed to be selected for the 18-man roster for the first Premier League game of the new season.

But he was included in the starting 11 list beyond the expectations of many players on the scene!

Yes, he was not only selected for the final 18-man roster, but he was even able to start as the right back in Chelsea's Premier League opener of the new season!

When this huge surprise hit his head, he didn't even react to what he should say.

It was Li Ang who congratulated him immediately and joked to him that he should treat everyone to a dinner after the game.

Trippier, who was dizzy, naturally walked down the steps given by Li Ang.

He didn't understand why the coaching staff suddenly put Bertrand on the bench, and would rather let Azpilicueta play as a left-back to keep Bertrand, who was in the limelight last season, in the cold.

He only knew that he seemed to have really got a chance to turn things around!

It came from his own hard training and stable performance, and also from Mourinho's appreciation!

This time, it was difficult for him to calm down his excitement in a short time.

Until the afternoon of August 8, the warm-up was completed at Stamford Bridge, and even the morale mobilization in the locker room was completed.

He stood in the player's tunnel and took a deep breath carefully and urgently, trying to slow down his emotions as soon as possible and calm down his mind.

"Hey, Kieran, how do you feel? Kevin has to rely on you to clean up his ass today, and maybe he needs you to provide him with offensive support."

At this time, Li Ang patted Trippier on the shoulder.

He did not signal Trippier to relax, nor did he try to comfort the player who was one year older than him.

Because he believes in Trippier's strength, he also believes that Trippier, who has been working hard in the professional arena for six years, will adjust his mentality in time.

He suddenly transferred from a mid-to-lower-level Premier League team to a newly promoted Premier League giant, and became the starting player of the giant team in the first league game of the new season.

Whoever has this opportunity will be excited for a few days, and the key is to look at the performance on the field.

And Li Ang happened to think that Trippier is a player who will be fully committed after stepping on the court and has a big heart.

"Of course no problem, I will perform well!"

Trippier took a deep breath at this time, then turned his head to look at Li Ang, and stretched out his hand to hold Li Ang's hand.

The two smiled at each other, and Li Ang then applauded and signaled his teammates in the player channel to perform well later.

Chelsea's opponent in the league opening game this season is Swansea.

Swansea performed very well in the Premier League last season, and it can be said to be another Premier League dark horse after Southampton.

At the end of the season, Southampton ranked seventh in the Premier League, and Swansea ranked one place behind Southampton.

They were only six points away from entering the European war zone, and their strength was still quite strong.

Compared with Southampton, which was poached by other Premier League giants, Swansea's main lineup remained relatively intact in the new season.

For a mid- and lower-level team like them, it is very rare to not sell the main players after a season of results, and even the boss is willing to spend money to continue to buy players in the transfer market.

The Chelsea coaching staff still attaches great importance to Swansea.

In addition to the promotion of Trippier to the starting right back, all the starting players today are Chelsea's main players in the new season.

The goalkeeper is Oblak.

On the defensive line, Azpilicueta, Maguire, Thiago Silva and Trippier started the game.

In the midfield, Matic, Kroos and Li Ang appeared in unison.

On the forward line, Chelsea's new season's forward trident of Hazard, Suarez and De Bruyne also made their first start at Stamford Bridge!

Swansea also played with all its main players today, hoping to show their style in the opening match of the new season.

Gomis, Andre Ayew, Sigurdsson, Ki Sung-yueng, Shelvey, Ashley Williams, Fabianski and other Premier League players all made their debuts.

In addition to the opening match between Manchester United and Tottenham, which started in the morning and has now ended.

Basically, the match between Chelsea and Swansea is the most popular.

At 17:30 on August 8, London time, Chelsea and Swansea, who had completed the opening ceremony, stood opposite each other at Stamford Bridge.

With the referee's whistle, one of the opening matches of the 2015-2016 Premier League season started on time!

Swansea, who got the right to kick off, quickly deployed their formation and launched an attack on Chelsea's midfield and backcourt defense.

Ki Sung-yueng took the ball in the backcourt and sent a long pass directly in the direction of Gomis's running.

This is a very standard opening attack test in the Premier League.

The long pass and lob tactics have their value and significance in any era of football.

However, it is very difficult for Gomi to score this goal in Chelsea's half at this moment.

Because Maguire has already come up, he jumped up behind him to compete for the header and lobbed the ball back to the midfield!

Li Ang had the last laugh in the tangle with Sigurdsson.

He first stopped the ball with his chest, and then passed it back.

And Kroos, who came in, also gave Swansea a long pass at the beginning of the game!

However, unlike Ji Chengyong who chose to lob a long pass to the middle at the beginning of the game, Kroos's diagonal long pass went straight to De Bruyne on the wing.

Kroos's long pass cleverly avoided the defensive army in Swansea's midfield.

The Swansea players who were just pressing all the way could only turn their heads back to defend at this time.

After unloading the ball, De Bruyne moved forward along the sideline. While Swansea's defense was not stable, he wanted to send a cross ball to test his feet.

But just as he was adjusting the pass, the shouts from the side quickly attracted his attention.

He turned his head and saw that Trippier had moved forward and moved inside at some point, and had already touched the right side of Swansea's half!

This running position choice is very interesting, because now the full-backs in football will basically choose to go over the side first, and then receive the pass from the winger and go directly to the bottom.

Trippier's offensive style of moving inside and almost acting as a central midfielder is still too rare.

However, in previous training, Trippier has shown his unique running style many times.

Mourinho did not say much about this, and the other Chelsea players have more or less adapted to the running route of their new teammates, so De Bruyne was not surprised at this moment.

Without any hesitation, De Bruyne decisively knocked the ball to Trippier who raised his hand to signal.

After getting the ball, Trippier observed very quickly. Almost at the moment when Li Ang passed him sideways, he rubbed the ball forward and sent a through ball over the top!

"Is this ball not offside?! Trippier's wonderful pass!!! Li Ang is facing Fabianski!"

Zhan Jun widened his eyes and applauded in the studio!

After successfully countering the offside, Li Ang, who received Trippier's through ball over the top, was now facing Swansea goalkeeper Fabianski alone!

Li Ang's forward pass was done in one go, leaving no chance for Ashley Williams to catch up with him.

His shooting skills have now been trained to an ability value of 87, and he has balanced both feet, so after getting a single opportunity, Li Ang was very calm and composed!

Facing Fabianski who abandoned the goal, Li Ang leaned over, adjusted the angle, and pretended to use his left foot to rub the ball into the far corner of the goal.

Fabianski was disturbed by Li Ang's action, and the focus of the save was all on the upper body.

But the next moment, Li Ang decisively shot with his left foot!

The football rolled quickly between Fabianski's open legs along the grass, and finally crossed the goal line without any suspense and hit the net behind the Swansea goal!

At this moment, the game time has just passed the first minute of the opening!

Premier League commentators from various countries have not even sat down at this moment, and they passively gave passionate praise to Li Ang and Chelsea!

The cheers of the fans at Stamford Bridge did not seem very excited, and more Chelsea fans were even dizzy!

This is a goal? !

Li Ang, who scored the fastest goal in the Premier League this season, pointed to Trippier who assisted him and more teammates, indicating that they should celebrate with him in the corner flag area!

Under the record of the live camera, Chelsea's players on the field hugged each other confidently and passionately!

The major English media who got Chelsea's starting list today an hour before the game now have nothing to say about Mourinho's use of players.

Who dares to question Mourinho's bold decision to use Trippier?

This lucky guy assisted Li Ang in less than a minute after the start of the game!

Just wait and see, he will definitely be on the front page of major sports newspapers with Li Ang tomorrow!