推 frafoa:創紀錄的時候還不到20歲。真是小天才 61.229.73.217 02/06
http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=sportsNews&storyID=667203
Cech sees success in dressing room
Sat Feb 5, 2005 06:04 PM GMT
By Clare Lovell
LONDON (Reuters) - Record-breaking Chelsea goalkeeper Petr Cech puts
his success in the Premier League down to team spirit and a side that
knows how to defend from the strikers backwards.
The lofty 22-year-old Czech, who joined the runaway league leaders at
the start of the season, goes into Sunday's match against Manchester
City defending a 781-minute clean sheet.
"It's not just four defenders and a goalkeeper. We are playing
defensively well as a team. It's difficult to get through our block
from the front to back," Cech said.
"Then we have some great players in front who can turn a game," the
2.01-metre tall keeper said after a session at the club's Cobham
training ground southwest of London.
Billionaire Russian owner Roman Abramovich snapped up Cech from Stade
Rennes in France for nine million pounds before manager Jose Mourinho
took over last June. Arsenal had failed to secure his services two years
earlier. Barcelona also tried.
His outstanding form has relegated Italian Carlo Cudicini, who could
walk into most Premier League first teams, to the Chelsea bench.
The diffident Czech international plays down his own role in Chelsea's
success despite some match-saving performances.
Going into Sunday's game in Manchester, the London side are eight points
clear at the top of the Premier League, conceding only eight goals in 25
matches.
BRUISING ENCOUNTER
Last Wednesday, in a bruising encounter at Blackburn Cech saved a penalty
to preserve a 1-0 win and keep Chelsea on course for their first
championship for 50 years.
In the process he broke the Premier League record of one of his childhood
role models, Denmark's Peter Schmeichel who had gone 694 minutes
without conceding for Manchester United in 1997.
"He was one of the greatest ever. I wanted to be like him. I also looked
up to (Edwin) van der Sar when he was at Ajax and (Italy keeper Gianluigi)
Buffon when he was a young guy."
Perhaps because Cech's record at Sparta Prague was even more impressive --
as a teenager there he went nearly 900 minutes without picking the ball
out of the back of his net -- Cech shrugs off statistics.
"For me the most important thing is to have three points after each
game," he said.
"We know what we are playing for -- we need 10 more victories and that
is a big number but mentally we are really strong.
"You cannot achieve anything without strong team spirit and belief in
the dressing room."
c Reuters 2005. All Rights Reserved.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
--
ocmcocmcocmk**no surprises.
k**no surprises.
a heart thats full up like a land fill. a job that slowly kills you.
bruises that wont heal.
you look so tried_nhappy. bring down the government. they dont.
theydontspeak for us.
--
※ 發信站: 批踢踢實業坊(ptt.cc)
◆ From: 218.168.35.192