Jagged Wings

Chapter 59 The First Touchstone
The game that took place on the 19th was destined to be a game where sparks hit the earth.This game is not only the first game in the league against the second in the league, but more importantly, it is the answer to the proposition "whether anyone can snipe Chelsea".

If Arsenal lose, then Chelsea will have a seven-point advantage, so that they will go away like last season; on the contrary, if Arsenal win, then they will continue to maintain their championship position. Pressure, and continue his record of victory at home.

A draw means nothing to either side.

In fact, the media's hype on Arsenal and Chelsea did not start recently. Since last season, these two teams have often been compared.Arsenal was the Premier League champion last season and No.2 last season, while Chelsea was the Premier League champion last season and No.3 last season. The two champion teams are always easy to compare .

When everyone talks about Arsenal, they always mention Chelsea incidentally-"Arsenal had a good chance of defending the champion last season, but Chelsea, an upstart, took everything away!"

"The Ruble Legion made football a money game!"

"Stingy Arsenal and ostentatious Chelsea!"

"Chelsea can buy anyone, but not heritage!"

Although the players don't care about the comments from the outside world, they do affect the players' emotions.Chelsea's players are also professional players. They are eager to be recognized and respected, but the club bears the title of "upstarts", and they are also labeled as "motley crew" by the media, and suffer accordingly.Although part of the reason they came to Chelsea was money, part of the reason was the desire for championships.Now that the Premier League champion is in hand, it is time to pursue higher-level aspirations.

What is at a higher level?

The topic is back to the beginning: being recognized!How to be recognized?victory!Keep winning!They believe that defeating a so-called "big club" like Arsenal will make them feel more "recognized".

Arsenal has a feeling of lying on the gun,

In the past two seasons, Manchester United has been weak, with ups and downs, and encountered the biggest championship drought since Ferguson led the team. Although Liverpool came to Benitez, Benitez's wonderful strategy of buying and employing people and the team are not that big. The high transfer expenses make them not very competitive.In this way, Arsenal has become the team that must be defeated in Chelsea's eyes.

"I heard that they threatened to be unbeaten at home this season? I like such rhetoric, but I like spoiling the situation even more!" Terry talked eloquently in an interview with the media.

Although Chelsea have a good record this season, their situation is not good.Mourinho's big mouth makes him have only enemies and no friends in the Premier League.Even sometimes, the referee will become his enemy.

So before this game, Mourinho first gave the FA a "vaccination" and warned the referee not to give Arsenal "special treatment": "The referees always like the kind of ball that plays beautiful football." The team. Arsenal are always portrayed by the media as playing beautiful football, how cute it is, but they put pressure on the referee on the sidelines to send off their opponents. Let me say this is what I can see in the stadium The most unfair scene and a big stain on Arsenal's image as a gentleman."

This season, Chelsea will occasionally be awarded a penalty kick by the referee inexplicably or send off one person. Mourinho does not want such a thing to appear in this battle.

Mourinho kept making comments to put pressure on Arsenal.Lampard, the main midfielder of the club and the England national team, even stood up and believed that Arsenal is not far from the collapse: "They are very young, but they will feel nervous when they come to the big game. This does not make a difference because of who you are. , the important thing is that they have no experience".

Faced with these remarks, Rangnick quickly came out to decompress: "Even if we beat Bayern Munich in this game, it doesn't mean we can win the league championship..."

Wenger knew that this was Mourinho's psychological warfare.They have always been like this. Whenever they encounter a strong opponent, they will use this kind of psychological warfare. The whole team will always think of some off-court tricks to put psychological pressure on the opponent.It's just that they used other opponents before, but now they have replaced it with Arsenal.

Wenger immediately fired back at Mourinho: "It's clear to all whether we are being treated well! I'm not like some people who are always complaining and I think that's why they don't get 'preferred treatment'. ’. We never cared about other things, we just played our own football, football is those things on the field, I don’t like when someone thinks football is complicated.”

Wenger is mostly debonair and looks like a real "professor", but if he is provoked, he will not say a word.

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With the deepening of commercialization, the popularity of the Premier League is getting higher and higher, and there is already a trend of "the world's first league". All teams have received a lot of attention, and even Blackburn has many fans in distant China. .Under such circumstances, the confrontation between the first and second in the Premier League is not to mention the attention it attracts.

On the night of December [-]th, Arsenal's away game against Chelsea has attracted worldwide attention.

According to the data announced on the official website of the Football Association, according to the latest statistics, as of now, 130 countries and regions around the world have decided to broadcast the game live.

The 150 tickets at Highbury Stadium were sold out half a month before the match, and a stand-by ticket that originally cost [-] euros had been sold to [-] euros.

Reyes received a call from his agent right after the training session. The agent rarely told him that a TV station in China had come to the UK to report on the match, and then extended an invitation to him.

Invite him to do an exclusive interview after the match against Chelsea.Of course, the TV station didn't know that there was a Chinese soul in Reyes' body.They were able to find Reyes. On the one hand, compared with Henry and Wenger, although Reyes' reputation is not enough, his development trajectory is definitely straight upward. Interviewing him can be regarded as a kind of early stage. investment.There was a TV interview, Reyes thought about it and agreed.Whether it's because of one's home country, or to expand one's popularity in China, that's helpful.

After hanging up the phone, Reyes was filled with emotion—the influence of the Premier League has spread to China... I wonder if China has its own fans?
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After the training, Reyes was stopped by Wenger: "After taking a shower, I will go to the press conference."

Wenger would randomly ask a player to go with him at the press conference, sometimes Captain Henry, sometimes Ashley Cole, Reyes also went a few times.

However, it was the first time that Reyes was asked to go to the press conference for such an important game.

This is Hoffenheim's last routine press conference before going to Munich.

When the two came to the club's press conference, they realized that the place was already overcrowded.Usually there are at most a dozen reporters in this small room, but now more than 40 journalists squeezed in at once, squeezing the room to the brim.

After seeing the two protagonists appear, the reporters stopped discussing each other and started to interview.

Although the match is getting closer and closer, the psychological warfare between each other still has no intention of stopping.The two clubs used the media to spit at each other to provoke psychology, which made the onlookers very happy, and the climaxes followed one after another.So every press conference can inquire about some fierce news.

Both Mourinho and Wenger are very good at psychological warfare, so they have a lot to say.

In the last press conference, Wenger made a strong response to Chelsea's provocation for the first time, and the response was very good-the onlookers did not want to see a one-sided battle. If so, what's the point?
Some reporters raised their hands to ask questions, hoping that Wenger would reveal a little bit about his game tactics.

But Wenger shrugged and said uncooperatively: "Maybe I will send all the defenders to imitate the 10-0-0 formation that Mr. Mourinho is proud of? It is also a good choice to score a point at home. .”

Hearing what the head coach said, Reyes, who was sitting next to him, couldn't help laughing.

Reyes' laughter immediately attracted the attention of all reporters, but he still smiled recklessly and said nothing.

The anger of the reporters began to rise: Hey, do you think we are air?

An English reporter stood up and asked Reyes the question: "The media said that Chelsea players will try their best to prove that they are not 'upstarts' or 'hooligans'. What do you think?"

"What I want to say is that the more they try to prove it, the more they admit in their hearts that they are 'nouveau riche' and 'upstarts'. People who are really rich will never deny that they are rich. Look at Real Madrid digging How naked are people?"

Wenger took over the conversation: "Yes, we are not short of money, but we are very satisfied with our lineup. Why do Chelsea buy people so often? Because they are always flawed, how can a perfect Arsenal lose What about flawed Chelsea?"

(End of this chapter)