Jagged Wings

Chapter 155 Wenger's Ten Years

How many years has it been since Arsenal won so cleanly and soul-stirringly against Manchester United?
双方争霸十几年，算是各有胜负。其中最大的比分是2001年的英超联赛中，曼联主场6:1狂胜阿森纳，而阿森纳对曼联最大的胜利也是发生在2001年的客场4:0战胜曼联。

This 4:1 victory is the biggest score Arsenal has achieved against Manchester United in the past 6 years, and no one thought of it beforehand.After all, Manchester United is unstoppable this season, but Arsenal's performance is ups and downs. They can beat Aston Villa 4:0, or lose to Manchester City 2:5. The performance like a roller coaster makes the fans feel touched. A big test!

Many people thought that the young gunners would suffer defeat when they met the seasoned Red Devils, but after 90 minutes, the eyes of the so-called experts and scholars fell to the ground. Arsenal used undisputed performance to overthrow Manchester United to the ground!And Reyes' performance is undoubtedly the guarantee of this major victory!
In the days without Henry, Reyes became the locomotive leading the Gunners forward, and some fans even prepared to compose ballads for Reyes!
Arsenal fans are happy. Apart from the championship, defeating the deadly enemy is undoubtedly the best way to win the hearts of fans.After this game, in the selection of "Who is the best person" on Arsenal's official website, on Arsenal's official website, which has already received 116040 million votes, Reyes dominated with 32% of the votes. Henry, who missed the game, fell to third place, and the second position was overtaken by Cesc Fabregas, who got 25% of the votes!
"He is a man who can change the game by himself. To be honest, it was really a mistake not to bring him in. Now? If the time is right, I will consider bringing in him. We need someone to succeed Ryan Giggs. Man... As for Cristiano, he has shown what he can do in the World Cup, he is not the same type of player as Reyes..."

After the game, Ferguson made an exception and did not get angry, but suddenly praised Reyes honestly, which was rare before.

"Has your lordship gone mad?"

"There are rumors that he is going to retire in despair?"

"Is Manchester United really vulnerable?"

Reporters raised their doubts one after another, and Ferguson denied them.He is indeed old, but that champion heart is indispensable.After this game, he found himself caught in a circle by his "little trick".Manchester United's morale was high before the match against Arsenal. How could they use their brains?Arsenal can be defeated by being upright!

It was he who used Fletcher wrongly in the game. As a result, Fletcher, who executed too much tactics, was too dogmatic and gave Arsenal too much space.Ferguson was also reflecting at this time: Is it because he has too much control over the team, making the players' own initiative worse?Look at the locker room, it's full of obedient babies...

Ferguson shook his head. It seems that he is really old, and even began to doubt himself, but he really needs to go back and summarize...

And when teammate Rosicky was interviewed, he also talked about himself and Reyes frankly: "We are indeed in a competitive relationship. There is nothing to avoid, but this is not a reason to prevent the two of us from becoming friends... Reyes Is a very creative player, he can play unbelievable football, and he has a wide vision as well as delicate skills... c Ronaldo? No, no, I don't like him..."

Torres, who scored three goals in four rounds of the league, also praised Reyes: "Reyes is one of the reasons why I came to Arsenal. We have a tacit understanding..."

Taylor, a reporter from The Sun, specifically found Gallas and asked him to talk about "things about Reyes". With the photo and the "confession" of the person involved, it is the ironclad evidence of Arsenal's "infighting". !

"How do you feel at Arsenal?" Taylor asked.

"The atmosphere in the team is great, the young players love football, they love training and having fun, that's the most important thing. They're playing really, really well, one pass, two out, it's fantastic It's unbelievable that they are so young and so good at the game."

Due to Arsenal's astonishingly high injury rate, Gallas, who can play left-back and centre-back, has not had many opportunities to play, and he is very happy here.

"How about the cooperation with the frontcourt players? Like with Reyes?"

"To be honest, the two of us are not in tune..." Gallas's words made Taylor happy, but Gallas immediately said: "I obviously arrived in England earlier than him, why is he the one who can speak fluent English now?" And me?"

Taylor's head is full of black lines: because your IQ is too low...

Gallas didn't know whether he was stunned or hit by mistake, and none of the questions he answered met Taylor's expectations.Sometimes Taylor wanted to bring the conversation back to Reyes, but Gallas wasn't always what Taylor wanted to hear.Even if Taylor wanted to take it out of context, Gallas didn't give him such a chance.

There were five rounds in the league, Arsenal played four games, Reyes scored four goals and ranked first in the scorer list, and Manchester United's Saha was tied for the top, but because Saha played one more game, so Reyes is top scorer in the league.Although it is only the scorer list of the fifth round, it is enough to make the gun fans happy for a while.

And the league continues.

In the sixth round of the league, Arsenal's opponent is Sheffield United at the Emirates Stadium.

Sheffield United Football Club is a powerful team in the birthplace of modern football. It was formerly a cricket team. It was established in 1855 and has a history of 117 years.A team with an ancient and fine tradition.It is also one of the earliest football clubs in the world.But the oldest is not necessarily the best, just like China is the first country in the world to invent gunpowder, but it is the Europeans who really rule the world with gunpowder.

No matter how glorious the history is, it belongs to the past. The current Sheffield United is just a newly promoted team.Facing the newly promoted Sheffield United, Arsenal can be said to be bound to win.

There was not much suspense in the process of the game. Facing Sheffield United with as many as 16 people on the injured list, Arsenal defeated the opponent 3-0 at home. Gallas scored his first goal for the Gunners; Stanley scored in three consecutive rounds, and Henry, the gun king who returned from injury, was the icing on the cake, scoring the second goal in the league this season.

The game against Sheffield United is the first game of Arsenal's eight-day three-match game. Four days later, they will continue to sit at home to meet the challenge of Porto, the Portuguese Super League powerhouse.

Speaking of Porto, I have to talk about another person who is closely related to him-Mourinho. The most glorious time for the Porto club was when Mourinho was coaching there.Mourinho became the head coach of the Porto club in January 2002, leading the team out of the poor state of the first half, and finally won the league No.1. 3 was Mourinho's first full season, Leading Porto to win the league, Portuguese Cup and UEFA Cup in one breath, becoming the "Triple Crown". In 2003, led Porto to successfully defend the league title, and in the European Champions Cup final held on May 2004, defeated Monaco 5-26 to win the Champions League.

After Mourinho left Porto to join Chelsea, this legendary dark horse sank. Although they occasionally entered the Champions League, their performance was always unsatisfactory.Coming to Arsenal's home court, Porto hopes to find some confidence from Arsenal, who won the European Champions Cup last season.

And this game is of special significance to Arsenal. First of all, this will be the first Champions League match at the Emirates Stadium, and this game also coincides with Wenger's tenth anniversary of coaching the Gunners. I hope to use a victory to draw a successful conclusion to this milestone game.

Although it cannot be compared with Ferguson's experience of coaching Manchester United for nearly 20 years, it is still a remarkable thing to coach a team for ten years in world football.

Ferguson, who had been an opponent for ten years and then lost to Wenger in the league just now, commented: "Wenger has done a lot for Arsenal in such a long period of time. He insisted on his philosophy and football style, and brought some to Arsenal. Brilliant, eye-pleasing player who has managed to save money in the transfer market and keep Arsenal's coffers full, maybe people forget about that because we live in such a fussy world now."

And Arsenal vice-chairman Dunn assured Wenger that he would get a permanent job, saying: "We want him to spend the rest of his career at Arsenal, and if one day he wants to retire from the coaching position, he will Being able to play a technical role on the board has been very valuable to us."

The blessings of the players were also sent.

Reyes: "He is my favorite person, although he is a little stingy. For me, the boss is the most special person. He is always so gentle with everyone. It is a great thing to work with him. Comfortable work!"

Henry: "He is a great coach, there is no doubt about it, we have a good cooperative relationship, the future? I hope he can continue to coach at Arsenal in the future, I am used to playing under him."

And Cesc Fabregas, known as Wenger's "pro-son", is also full of gratitude to him: "I will always say that the boss is a very good person, he brought me here, and when I was only 16 years old Let me train with the first team, let me learn from Henry, Bergkamp and Vieira. I have to thank him for that, now is the time to give him back!"

Someone summed up Wenger's merits and demerits in the past ten years, and also listed Wenger's ten most successful signings in the past ten years, including Henry, Reyes, Vieira, Toure, Fabregas, Ane Ten people including Erka, Pires, Overmars, Campbell and Ljungberg are on the list.

Thierry Henry is undoubtedly the first of the top ten signings. He was elected as the Player of the Year by the Football Reporters Association 3 times, the Premier League Player of the Year 2 times, the World Footballer runner-up 2 times, 7 times The top scorer in the Arsenal team this season, this is Henry.

Reyes overwhelmed Vieira and ranked second. Although he did not adapt at first, Reyes adapted tenaciously and survived. The silver ball award and assist king in the World Cup made Wenger "Bole" reputation resounded again.

Of course, with the Champions League approaching, everyone's attention is focused on the game.

A month ago, Arsenal defeated Dinamo Zagreb at the Emirates Stadium and successfully advanced to the Champions League. After defeating Hamburg 2-1 in the first round of the group stage, Arsenal is also expected to win three more at home. point.Porto was tied 0-0 by CSKA Moscow in the first round. In this game, they will face a stronger Arsenal. If they can leave London with a point, it would be an ideal result.

此前双方从未在正式大赛上相遇过，而两队在最近一轮的国内联赛上均以3比0轻松获胜。周六阿森纳3比0战胜谢菲尔德联队，迎来了球队在新球场的联赛首胜。而波尔图则于周五3比0轻松击败比拉马队，本赛季取得了四连胜的完美开局。

"The opponent has won four consecutive victories, are you afraid?" A reporter asked Reyes before the game.

"A week ago there was a team with four consecutive victories at the top of the list, and then we killed him-their name is Manchester United!" Reyes shrugged and asked: "Do you think Manchester United is better or Porto is better?"

"Really? But I understand this Arsenal, including their strengths and weaknesses, but they don't know anything about us. This is our advantage!" Porto striker Postiga said confidently: "Facing Arsenal Nah, I have a lot of experience!"

Three years ago, Postiga played for Tottenham Hotspur, Arsenal's city rival. If there is anyone who knows Arsenal best, then it must be the rival Tottenham. their vast experience.

"What can we do?" Torres looked anxious: "He has a lot of experience against Arsenal, but we don't know anything, what should we do?"

"What the hell? He has fart experience, even if it is experience, it is also experience of failure." Reyes dismissed it: "Tottenham has not defeated Arsenal in seven years, and the Tottenham coach can't figure it out." Tohru, what good experience can he have as a player?"

Facts have proved that Porto's threat before the game "to not let Wenger enjoy this decade commemorative game" is completely nonsense.

Because the time distance was too short, Wenger rotated several positions. Van Persie replaced Torres on the striker, Ljungberg on the right for Henry, Jenas in the center for Gilberto, and central defender Hoyt for Sen. Dross.

Reyes, who started the game, was replaced by Rosicky again during the halftime break. This is not to say that he performed poorly, but because the game lost suspense.

In the first half, Reyes used a goal and an assist to help the team lead 3:0 in the first half. Arsenal already had an absolute advantage in the game. Henry's comeback made Arsenal have high morale!So Reyes, who has started repeatedly recently, got a chance to rest when the score lost suspense.

Originally, Porto thought that they could relax a bit when Reyes, the god of plague, was gone, but Rosicky, who came off the bench again, was worthy of the reputation of "super substitute". He used two wonderful assists to help the team finally beat Porto 5:0. Henry Scored twice, Ljungberg also scored a goal, and the last goal was an own goal for Porto.

In the other match of this group, CSKA Moscow beat the visiting Hamburg team 1-0.After two rounds of the Champions League, Arsenal have two wins and two wins with 6 points, CSKA Moscow with 4 points, Porto with 1 point, and Hamburg with 0 points at the bottom.

It seemed that after only two rounds, the group lost its suspense.

Of course, there is also bad news. Van Persie, who only came back for two rounds, was injured again, accompanied by Ljungberg with a sprained knee.Fortunately, Arsenal are equipped with at least two players in each position, so that the list will not be stretched.

Of course, there is no such thing as a substitute for Reyes.

(End of this chapter)