Jagged Wings

Chapter 25 Achilles' thigh?
Each side has 11 players, and they will have a game that is not open to the public in the practice field.

On the one hand, it is to test the training results of the players, and on the other hand, it is to observe the status of the players.

At the same time, it is also to stir up the competitive atmosphere in the team. Wenger has always noticed that he is too warm to the players, so now is the time to change: "This training game is the qualifier for the starting lineup of the game three days later. Whoever performs well will play!"

Since it is fair, the strength of the two teams is also balanced.Reyes and half of the main players were assigned to Group A. Reyes and Bergkamp acted as the strikers of this group. The striker combination of the opposite group B was the other half of the main players led by Henry and Van Persie.

Reyes was very excited for this game and played very hard.Of course, it is related to the position of the main force, and there are not many people in the team who do not work hard.The main players want to keep their positions, while the substitute players want to give themselves points with the head coach.

In this confrontation, the right back of team B is played by the teenager Eboue, who is a young Ivorian player who joined during the winter break.Although he is a "teenager", his birthday is actually three months older than Reyes.

Eb has the strong body and explosive power that African players generally have. Also as a right back, he has high stealing efficiency and fast speed. Although he can't talk about threatening Lauren's main position, no one will deny his potential.

This intra-team confrontation happened to be the match between Abramovich and Reyes.Facing Reyes, who became famous much earlier than him, Abramovich showed no stage fright at all.

Although every time the two confront each other, Reyes wins, but the Ivorian can always bring some troubles to Reyes.

Reyes is notoriously fast, agile, and good at accelerating and changing directions.When facing Abu, he used a sudden acceleration and then a sudden acceleration, and then changed to an extraordinary trick, trying to shake Abu.

Abu reacted quickly, and when he saw Reyes make a sudden stop, he knew he was going to change direction.In fact, a wide player on the wide side is nothing more than a few methods such as emergency stop, change of direction and inside cut shot, but you know it, and whether you can prevent it is the question.

When Reyes made an emergency stop, Eb also made an emergency stop, and followed Reyes to make a turn.

Reyes knew that this simple emergency stop and change of direction would not be able to get rid of Abe, so he followed up with another emergency stop and change of direction to accelerate, and dunked the ball to the baseline again.

Abe didn't expect Reyes to move so quickly, he didn't have time to adjust.

However, Eb found that Reyes just made a smashing action, and then stood there motionless.

This extraordinary move is only half done.

Eb rushed forward and kicked the ball out of the baseline.

Reyes stood there and frowned, just when he stopped and accelerated for the second time, he suddenly felt a pulling pain in the thigh muscles of his left leg.The feeling was very short, and it came when his thigh was exerting force.When he felt pain, he stopped moving immediately, and the pain disappeared again.

He just stood there and let Abe kick the ball away.

Bergkamp was the first to notice that something was wrong with Reyes, when he could have broken through Eb, but suddenly stopped, like a motorcycle that suddenly lost power, and then stood still. With his head down, he couldn't see any expression on his face.

Bergkamp suddenly had a bad feeling, and he ran over: "What's wrong with you, Antonio?"

Reyes still lowered his head, just kicked his left leg on the spot, and then frowned.

This action is no stranger to anyone who exercises regularly, so Bergkamp also frowned.
injured? he asked in a low voice.

Reyes nodded: "Maybe a strain."

"Shit, what a bad time!" Bergkamp cursed in a rare whisper.With just three days until the second round, Reyes pulled a muscle?

Wenger was the second to notice something was wrong with Reyes.He saw Reyes with Bergkamp.He lowered his head and kept kicking his legs, as if he was testing something.He knows what that means.So he signaled assistant coach and referee Patrice to stop the game, and then ran up with the team doctor.

With just three days until the second leg, no minor injury can go unnoticed and it's no wonder he's so nervous.

The players were stunned when they saw the head coach and the team doctor running onto the pitch—is anyone injured?Arsenal's injury situation in the second half of the season was very serious. Campbell, Vieira and Reyes had all had injuries, and Ashley Cole had just recovered from his injuries.

Reyes looked up at the head coach and team doctor who had already run in front of him.

"What's going on?" Wenger asked, frowning.

"Thigh muscle strain. Sir," Reyes replied helplessly.Injured before the second round, anyone who has to deal with such a thing is very disappointed and helpless.

"When did it happen?" The team doctor continued to ask.

"Just now. When I broke through Eb, I made a movement and felt muscle pain in my left thigh, so I stopped." Reyes said.

"You did the right thing, Antonio." The team doctor who was examining Reyes said, "You were right to stop immediately. If you insisted on finishing that action, your muscles are torn now." ’.” Then he patted Reyes on the thigh. "Looking at it now, it should be just the slightest strain."

"Can you make it to the second leg?" Wenger asked.

The team doctor said: "I can't guarantee it, it depends on the recovery in the past few days. But Antonio, don't even think about training again."

Reyes became so frustrated when he heard that he was uncertain whether he would be able to participate in the second round that his shoulders slumped.He will be sad if this game sees Arsenal knocked out because he is unavailable.

"Antonio is injured?" Henry also ran over. As a frontcourt partner, Henry knew how important Reyes was to Arsenal.

"Well, a muscle strain!"

"Is the injury serious?" Other teammates also surrounded him.

But the team doctor had already waved away the crowd, and helped Reyes all the way to the off-court.

"Actually, there is a reason for this incident," the team doctor said as he walked, "You also suffered an injury in this part at Christmas. Now it seems that you still didn't recover well and played in a hurry!" The team doctor said and pressed Reyes' injury: "You have to prepare for the worst, Antonio!"

"If it really doesn't work, I'll close it!" Reyes said solemnly.

The team doctor was taken aback: "Hey, Antonio, are you crazy?" Playing closed to participate in the game will not only aggravate the injury, but also cause permanent effects on the player's body.

Wenger walked up to Reyes and said: "Don't participate in the training, and now go to receive a therapeutic massage with the team doctor. You are not allowed to touch the ball these days, rest at ease. Did you hear that, Antonio?"

"I see, sir!" Reyes was quite helpless, how could he guarantee his condition if he couldn't participate in training?But if you continue to participate in training after being injured, it will only aggravate the condition of the strain, and then there is really no hope of participating in the second round.

Reyes was injured during the training, which made everyone lose the mood of talking and laughing, and the atmosphere in the training was a little dull.

Everyone knows the importance of Reyes to the team. This season, he has become Arsenal's offensive engine and an important offensive piece on the left.Among other things, just look at the "double-double" data, and you will know his importance.

Reyes was in a closed game when he was injured, so the media didn't know it at first.But there is no impenetrable wall in these worlds, for the media.There was no news they couldn't dig up.So soon the media knew that Reyes had strained his thigh muscle during training.

"Reyes: That's an Achilles' Thigh"

"Reyes was injured in training and may miss the second round? "

Injured twice in three months, the Spanish genius became a glass man? "

Various pessimistic headlines appeared in the English media, which poured cold water on the Gunners fans who were still looking forward to a home comeback.

The Spanish media also reported on this talented young man who went to England, and they also worried about Reyes' future career as a gunman.They believed that England's too rough defenders could destroy their genius.

"Maybe it's time for Real Madrid or Barcelona, ​​or even Valencia, to quickly bring our prodigy back!" the Spanish media appealed.

The fans also feel pity and regret for Reyes' injury. They know the importance of Reyes to Arsenal.If Reyes is not able to participate in the second leg, Arsenal's hope of advancing will drop from less than [-]% to [-]%.

The German media gloated a little when reporting on this incident.They all said that the absence of Reyes had a huge impact on Arsenal, and Bayern seemed to be able to easily advance.

Reyes' injury affected others as well.

He received a greeting from George, asking him about the injury, and hoped that he could recover from his injury and recover soon.

Reyes answered George with certainty: "Don't worry, I will definitely participate in the second round."

He has made up his mind that no matter how the injury recovers, he will play in the second round at that time.If this game is lost, then the Champions League for one year will be gone.

Just like what he said to the team doctor, even if it is closed, he will participate in the second round.

Unlike others, he knows the painful experience of Arsenal's "six years without a championship" in the future.No matter how rich and brilliant a team is, once it is not supported by championship trophies, it will depreciate quickly.

Reyes is not Wenger, he cannot change the club's business philosophy.But he can change a game with his own performance.

Isn't a season the sum of 38 games?

If you miss a game, you miss a year, so he just wants to seize the present.Even if it is to pay some physical price, it is not hesitating.

(End of this chapter)