inspire-indiana Chapter 398 The Battle of the Peak Begins [Part 1]
Chapter 398 The Battle of the Peak Begins [Part 1]
Chapter 398 The Battle of the Peak Begins [First Update]
In the 08-09 season, Professor Arsene Wenger's Arsenal set off a "red storm" that horrified everyone in the Premier League——
So far in the Premier League, the young Gunners have defied all expectations as the only team able to keep up the same formidable winning streak as Mad Lee's Magpies!
Such a result is severely slapping the five major league experts, media and sports betting companies!
Because before this, almost no one was optimistic that such a boy scout team could make a good start in the 08-09 season... Among the UEFA Champions League odds offered by major European sports betting companies, the ranking of Arsenal Arsenal is the lowest among the traditional giants in England!
The reason is that the Gunners' performance in the summer transfer market really broke the hearts of many Gunners fans!
In the just-concluded summer, Wenger firmly adhered to his consistent "Shotacon" transfer tendency in the transfer market, and introduced a few little-known players who did not help the competitiveness of the first team. Instead, he handed over several absolute main players of the first team.
Brazilian iron waist Gilberto Silva, who is expected to become the captain of the team, was forced to leave the Greek giants Panathinaikos because of Arsenal's harsh contract renewal policy of "contracts signed once a year for veterans over 30 years old"!
Since joining the Gunners, Hleb, who has become the absolute main midfielder in Belarus for three seasons, could not resist the temptation of the Catalan giants, and finally bid farewell to North London for 1500 euros and joined the La Liga giants Barcelona!
The most regrettable among the lost players is the new generation of French midfielder Flamini.
Professor Wenger’s intestines were green with regrets from Flamini’s body. Originally, Flamini begged to renew his contract with the club in a humble attitude last season, but at that time Wenger thought that he did not feel the value of being renewed and ruthlessly rejected Flamini’s request...
But no one expected that in the next season, this French midfielder who was originally underestimated would suddenly rise with a jaw-dropping posture and become the unshakable soul of Arsenal's midfielder!
Flamini’s contract is about to expire at this time, and it’s finally time for the club and Wenger to be anxious. Who knows that Flamini, who has a strong self-esteem, finally left the Emirates Stadium, where he didn’t trust him, because of a weekly salary difference of only 5000 pounds, and chose a free transfer to Serie A giants AC Milan...
After losing the three midfielders in a row, the professor only introduced the French teenager Nasri.
In this way, except for Cesc Fabregas, the soul of the Gunners, Arsenal's midfield has been changed drastically last season, and it is no different from rebuilding the new army!
What can fans and the media expect from a scout whose average age is less than 25?
In terms of age, Arsenal this season is actually no different from the new Newcastle team built by Madman Lee...
But the problem is that Newcastle has a "God on the sidelines" who has not lost since his debut at home, and although Professor Wenger has shown enough strength in the past years, he is far from reaching the terrifying role of the Chinese who can replace half of the team with one person just by fighting on the sidelines...
So before the disaster 08-09 season started, the Emirates Stadium was full of doubts about Wenger and the club.
The team missed the championship for many years, which caused the French professor's position in the arsenal to be strongly impacted. What is even more incredible is that some fanatical Arsenal fans booed the Frenchman who almost relied on his own efforts to rebuild Arsenal...
Four months ago, pessimism and disappointment enveloped the Emirates Stadium, gloomy!
But after just over 130 days, all doubts disappeared!
The media who once questioned Wenger changed their tone and quickly cheered and sought after the professor. The fans who once asked Wenger to dismiss get out of class and bowed their crazy heads to apologize to the professor...
The young Spanish midfielder Cesc Fabregas has become more mature...
Rookie Nasri proves to England that his title of "Zidane's successor" is not a myth...
After the little tiger Walcott put on the NO.14 jersey, he finally took over the mantle of the former King of Highbury Thierry Henry with a mature performance...
Latham, who had just been promoted to the first team by Wenger, once again proved to the world that Arsenal's youth academy has never lacked talent...
The children trusted by Professor Wenger are using their unbelievably strong performance to rectify their names as "mentors"!
After the 08 rounds of the Premier League in the 09-14 season, Arsenal, which was the least favored among the traditional semi-finals, actually relied on a group of child soldiers to go all the way through five stages and kill six generals to fight for the bright red...
14 straight wins!
Created the best start to the league in Arsenal's history!
And now, they will face the biggest hurdle since the start of the season——
At St. James' Park on November 11th, Arsenal and Newcastle, the two teams that are equally young but have also maintained a 25-game winning streak, will compete at this event.
When there is still a week before the game, the European media has already started to hype the game!
Because this is a duel between the only two remaining "ever-victorious generals" among more than 08 teams in the five major leagues since the beginning of the 09-100 season!
The well-deserved "Peak Battle" of the 08-09 season!
Once Professor Arsene Wenger's "Red Storm" can continue the miraculous pace in the away game and kill the Magpies, which has gradually weakened since the last few rounds of the league, then the French coach will become the first "god" to overthrow the dark and invincible rule of China's madman Li in the five major leagues for nearly 1000 days in the past three years!
In fact, in the 06-07 UEFA Champions League final, Wenger led the Arsenal headed by gun king Henry and almost cornered the madman Lee of the Real Madrid era. From this aspect, the French have a wealth of capital against madman Lee!
If he can win at St. James' Park Stadium on the 25th, then Wenger will undoubtedly ascend to a new altar with his invincible posture of 14 consecutive victories...
Beating Madman Lee is the goal pursued by the head coaches of every top club in the five major European leagues, and this time Wenger is within easy reach of this goal!
Become a god in one battle!
Of course, if the young Magpies can defeat the Gunners Arsenal who came to challenge at home, then Li Tongfan and his Magpies will become the only team in the five major European leagues in the 08-09 season and even all the teams outside the five major leagues.
This is the supreme honor that every team, every head coach, and every club strives for!
The decisive battle will begin at St. James' Park!
The whole world is watching!
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The battle at St. James' Park attracted almost the world's attention.
Football media reporters from five continents and seven oceans flocked like sharks smelling blood, and came to Newcastle, a harbor city known as "one of the eight major entertainment cities in the world"!
Not to be outdone, the major sports betting companies offered odds for the peak battle on the 25th. Newcastle slightly ahead of Arsenal in the odds. James Trung, CEO of the Austrian betting company BWIN, once again explained the company's approach in an interview with "The Sun" reporter Bruce Barbara——
"...There are two reasons why we are more optimistic about Newcastle. The first reason is naturally the existence of Crazy Li. Now no one in Europe seems to be able to curb the pace of victory of the Chinese. The second is because Newcastle is playing at home. The home atmosphere of St. James' Park is no less than that of any devil's home in the five major leagues..."
In the past few days, the barbed wire fence at the Rigburton training base in Newcastle has been overcrowded.
Every day, thousands of people braved the severe winter to watch the Magpies game here. In addition to the fanatical Newcastle fans, there were also journalists from all over the world, as well as Arsenal football players and foreign coaches...
The fans chanted "COME-IN-HOME-NEWCASTLE" in the cold wind to cheer for their heroes. The young bus driver John Newton and his newlywed wife Nelly, who has gradually become a fanatic fan even more than Newton himself, would appear outside the base almost every evening...
The reporters set up high-power cameras like black cannon barrels outside the barbed wire, constantly consuming film and cassettes, interviewing fans if they could not interview players, and almost no Newcastle fans thought that the game on the 25th would be troublesome for them——
"...There is nothing to worry about, Mr. Niutong has already prepared to cut it!!"
"What we are worrying about is how to celebrate the team's victory, not whether we can win..."
"...Damn Cockneys come laughing and go back crying, that's the rule!"
"...not just them, any team that visits St. James' Park is like this, don't try to take the victory away from Mr. Idiot..."
The level of support Newcastle fans have for the team astounds any reporter visiting the city for the first time. 99 out of [-] Newcastleans chanted Long live the magpie like a cult, while the rest were too lazy to answer questions.
Arsenal's expatriate coach from North London is also nervously observing Newcastle's preparations. Recently, Madman Lee's strange and changeable tactical arrangements in several consecutive games have made the media and fans have no idea what kind of tactics Newcastle will use in the next second!
“……以前那个用一套4-1-2-1-2钻石菱形战术打遍天下无敌手的疯子李现在已经变得更加成熟和可怕，对于如何从战术上牵制纽卡斯尔对我来说简直就是在做这个世界上最艰难的选择题！“
This is after the last round of the game, the head coach of the "violent Ben" Blackburn team Paul Ince sighed involuntarily in an interview with reporters.
And this sentence obviously hit the mind of Professor Wenger.
In order to gain insight into Newcastle's tactical configuration in advance, Arsenal dispatched 3 scouts and 2 expatriate coaches for the first time to come to the Rigburton training base every day to observe the preparation training of the Magpies.
These "spies" wearing sunglasses and caps that almost covered half of their faces were mixed in the crowd outside the barbed wire, just like Wenger's eyes, they continuously reported every piece of the most original information they saw to Professor Wenger in London...
It seems that the famous French coach is determined to win this game! ——
The first update and the second update are around 10:30.
(End of this chapter)