Jagged Wings

Chapter 44 Young Waist
The time has entered August, and the major teams have entered the end of their preparations. They have announced the closure of the transfer window and started technical and tactical drills.

And in the precariousness of such transfer news, Arsenal also ended their pre-season preparations in Austria and the Netherlands and returned to London.

It seems that the whole Arsenal team is in good condition. In the warm-up match, they achieved a complete victory record. Reyes also performed very well on the left side, contributing several wonderful goals and assists. Henry, the king of Highbury, even He scored goals in almost every game and was in excellent form.

New aid Hleb also played well, and everything seems to be normal.

Of course, there is something abnormal, that is between Hleb and Reyes.When Wenger introduced Hleb to the team, Reyes immediately recognized the man he had fought with in Spain.Hleb did not expect that the Spaniard who made him hate Spain turned out to be his new teammate at Arsenal.

The two said in unison: Life, what a fucking fuck!
Of course, the two of them didn't show it during the introduction, and shook hands cordially as if they had just met.But when they looked at each other, Reyes could get a trace of murderous look in each other's eyes alone.Then he felt the opponent's hand tightening.

Reyes is also not that easy to mess with, and he responds with toughness.The two competed quietly, but on the surface, the handshake time between the two was a bit too long.

Wenger thought that they fell in love with each other at first sight, and patted their shoulders with both hands happily: "It seems that you hit it off very well at first sight. You both are offensive players. From now on, you two will be in the locker room together. Training match When the time comes, the two of you should be together too!" Wenger happily arranged work for the two.

"Good sir!" Hleb said first.He is a new player and knows he has to impress the manager.Although he was very upset with Reyes, he still knew what was more important.Reyes is also an old man from last season. If she showed hostility, wouldn't she be immediately hostile by the entire locker room?
So Hleb agreed very happily.

Wenger looked at Reyes: "Antonio?"

"I'm fine, boss!" Reyes smiled.He was also worried that Wenger knew about his beating in the hotel, and of course he would not take the initiative to expose it.

Wenger was in a good mood and introduced the next person to Hleb with a smile.When walking over, Hleb looked back at Reyes and said with his eyes: "Boy, wait and see!"

Reyes raised his head and gave him a look: "I'll wait!"

Seeing this scene, Wenger smiled gratifiedly: You see, these two people are still nodding their heads, what a tacit understanding.

If the two of them knew what Wenger was thinking, they would probably spit out a mouthful of old blood.

In the following training, Hleb hastened to express himself, and added points for himself in front of the head coach. Of course, there was still a bit of calculation in it. If he performed well, it would set off the poor performance of Reyes. ?
Reyes didn't feel Hleb's careful thinking, but now is the time to compete for the main force before the season, so he can't perform too badly, right?

So Reyes played hard as well.

During the long preparation period for the league for nearly a month, even Cole, who has the best relationship with Reyes, did not see the disagreement between Reyes and Hleb.

In this way, under the "hostile relationship" between the two, the new season began.

The Community Shield is just around the corner.

For Reyes, this will be his first possible title of the new season.

No one will dislike the small number of champions, and Reyes will not despise him because of the light weight of this champion.

Mosquitoes are meat no matter how small they are.

For Arsenal fans, the upcoming Charity Shield means a summer of rest, and the new season is about to kick off. After that, they will enjoy the wonderful performance of Reyes and Arsenal every weekend. .

Community Shield, also known as Charity Shield.It is an annual game hosted by the English Football Association between the Premier League champions and the FA Cup champions. If the two champions are on the same team, the league runners-up and the FA Cup champions will play against each other instead.

In terms of the qualifications of the participating parties, it is the same as the "Super Cup" before the season of other national leagues.

Regarding the Community Shield, there is a very interesting "curse", that is, any team that wins the Community Shield before the season will lose the league championship.This curse began in 1997, and in eight years, nothing has failed.

Manchester United won the Charity Shield in 1997, but in the following 1997-1998 season, Arsenal snatched the Premier League Champions Cup.

In 2001, Liverpool won five championships, including a Community Shield champion. The Premier League champion in the 2001-2002 season was Arsenal.

The most recent is last season, the defending champion Arsenal, who won the Community Shield, was overwhelmed by Chelsea's Rubles and lost the chance to defend their title.

As the FA Cup champion, Arsenal's opponent in the Community Shield is Chelsea, which has won the league title.Last season, Arsenal and Chelsea played against each other four times, with a record of one win, one loss and two draws.But this win and one loss were in the quarter-finals of the Champions League, when Chelsea eliminated Arsenal in two games, and one draw was also an innocuous game after Chelsea won the championship.

So in fact, Arsenal is still relatively at a disadvantage.

The media ridiculed both sides before the game.

"The two teams had a lot of grievances last season. Last season, Chelsea snatched the league title from the defending champion Arsenal. Now Arsenal has become a challenger. This summer Chelsea strengthened, but Arsenal left Vieira. Who will win the game?"

"I don't know if Mourinho will deliberately lose this game in order to defend the title? But if he loses, wouldn't it make the Russian boss unhappy?"

Reyes is also full of fighting spirit. Although Chelsea has been racing all the way, Reyes is a person who likes challenges.

"The opponent is weak, and it's no fun to win! Will the giant have the pleasure of trampling the ant to death? But what if the ant kills the giant? Hehe, wouldn't it be so cool! I think it's more enjoyable than being on the number one beauty in Spain! "Stepping on the field before the game, Reyes and Cole talked and laughed.

Hleb couldn't bear the arrogance of Reyes, but he couldn't express his dissatisfaction even when his teammates were present, so he made a joke and said: "But I heard that someone was defended by Chelsea last season. Is it hard?"

"This is called tactics? Do you understand? This is what I call luring the enemy to go deep, and then pretend to be a pig and eat a tiger!" Reyes boasted.

Unlike the confident Reyes, Wenger took the game seriously.If they can beat Chelsea in the first game of the season, then Arsenal will get a very strong psychological hint that "we are better than the team that spent so much rubles", so that the teams in the league will have more Confidence.

The Community Shield game is different from other warm-up matches. This game is more confrontational and naturally has more gold content.Moreover, this game is relatively free, and the two sides can make multiple substitutions.

The venue of this game is no stranger to Arsenal, it is the stadium where they won the FA Cup last season-Cardiff Millennium Stadium.

Wenger's formation is still the same 442 for thousands of years. Of course, he is not a constant person. In this 442, Henry advances forward, Van Persie is the shadow forward, and although Reyes is the left midfielder, he is It is often inserted into the position of left winger or even forward, and Ljungberg is still the starting lineup on the right.

In the middle of the midfield, Wenger tried to use Pires as a defensive midfielder in the pre-season warm-up match, but the effect was not good, so Wenger sent a young double midfielder combination of Flamini and Xiaofa. , Flamini main attack.

In terms of defense, Lauren and Cole are still on the left and right, Senderos puts Campbell on the bench, and he and Toure guard the center.

The only thing that remains unchanged from last season is that Vieira was replaced by Fafale, and Bergkamp was replaced by Van Persie.

On the surface, it seems that Arsenal's lineup is weaker than last season, but because they have cooperated for a season, they have a good sense of tacit understanding and smooth cooperation on the field.

On the other hand, Chelsea, among the three strong supporters, left-back Del Horno and Essien started, plus Crespo who returned from loan, three new members were added to the technique.

Chelsea's performance after the start of the game was not good due to the use of new players and the team's lack of running-in.

Although after a summer of practice, there are still many new teammates after all, and they are not familiar enough with each other, so the Chelsea players played very awkwardly on the court.

Therefore, it was Arsenal who were in a weak position to score the first goal.

Fabio picked a pass to Henry, the King of Highbury threw off Essien and cut into the ribs of Chelsea's penalty area, then accelerated to throw off Terry, and a low shot pierced the goal guarded by Petr Cech.

1: 0!

Henry scored Arsenal's first goal of the season!
(End of this chapter)