Chapter Ninety-Four: The Premier League's "Christmas War"

There is no Christmas break for Christian players playing in the Premier League, who are struggling with England's terrible winter weather at a time when players from other major leagues are taking advantage of the winter break to relax their muscles in warmer tourist destinations. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The rainy weather, the freezing rain, and the mud-soaked pitch are things that may have been used to the weather and atmosphere all your life, but it's hard for a lot of newcomers to get used to it.

However, Liu Han is an exception, although Arsenal's training ground is not worthy of his status at the top of the league table, and the temperature of no more than 10 degrees makes the rain look extraordinarily cold, but this does not stop Liu Han from continuing his training, yes, even in the winter rainy weather in late December, Arsenal's training continues, however, for the English team, it is commonplace, and many British players who have worked hard in the lower leagues know that at least here they can still take a hot shower after trainingAt first, many of them dragged their mud-stained bodies home before they could take a shower.

Franck Franck Ribery, who started the FA Cup and performed well, did not return to the youth team this time, but instead trained with the first team, and this gradually hardened young man finally won the approval of Arsene Wenger, perhaps he was not so good at the game, but he was able to play to his strengths, and his speed was a good player even in the first team.

Ribery, who arrived in the first team, was quickly accepted by the other players with the help of Liu Han, who also asked Ribery to learn his training style from Bergkamp.

Ribery was trained by a French coach when he was in Lille, and the French coach has high requirements for the technical level of the players, so many French players are very good at working at their feet, and their mastery of some skills is better than that of players from other countries, but it is precisely because of this that French players will always be more sticky to the ball and more hesitant in handling the ball. Ribery, who is now in England, has been in the first team to embrace the simplicity of the British style, which will be very helpful for his future development, the fierce physical confrontation and ultra-fast transition speed in England games require players to handle the ball as quickly as possible, which requires players to move the most concisely, Bergkamp's training method of focusing on basic techniques is worth learning from Ribery.

On December 18, Arsenal continued their lead in the standings after a difficult home victory over "Crazy Gang" Wimbledon, but Manchester United has also played well this season, and their squad officially reached its peak after winning the "treble" last season, although they lost to Arsenal at the beginning of the season, but they have been biting the score since then, and even surpassed Arsenal to the top of the table at one point, but after Liu Han returned, Arsenal has won nine consecutive victories on all fronts, Such an arsenal is unstoppable.

Arsenal's next game is to challenge Coventry City away, this game will be held the day after Christmas, but Wenger does not plan to send all the main players in this game, which is one of the reasons why he left Ribery behind, Arsenal team attaches more importance to the game with Leeds United the day after the end of this game, although Wenger is extremely disgusted with the FA's schedule, but he still attaches more importance to the game with Leeds United in the case of having to face, after all, Coventry is a team like an elevator, Leeds United, on the other hand, are known as the "Young Guards", and there are many teams that covet some of the young talents in Leeds United.

Liu Han was not in the squad for the game against Coventry, and Arsene Wenger made the majority of the substitutes in this game, with Franck Ribery starting as a left-sided midfielder.

Arsene Wenger had intended to further refine the squad in this game, while also allowing some players to adapt to the squad without Liu Han, but the result of the game was not satisfactory.

The midfield set-up of Grimandi and Petit did not play well in this game, Grimandi at least took the game seriously, while Petit looked a little absent-minded, and Wenger did not arrange for Vieira to play in such a game, and the Arsenal team, who lacked a defensive stalwt, were breached by the opponent in the opening six minutes, and the opposing striker McAllister scored from outside the box.

Just before half-time, Coventry City midfielder Hadji scored Arsenal's goal.

Arsene Wenger was critical of his players at the break, and Arsenal picked up a bit of momentum at the start of the second half when Franck Ribery cut inside on the left and the ball was blocked by the goalkeeper before Thierry Henry slotted home from the spot.

However, less than five minutes after Arsenal's goal, Coventry broke through the Arsenal goal again, it was still a mistake in midfield, Coventry quickly counterattacked, and Kernan, who was outflanked in the box, scored.

Suker, who came on as a substitute before the end of the game, pulled a goal back, but it didn't help as Arsenal lost 2-3 away at Coventry.

The poor performance of the players and the loss of the game were enough to make Wenger unhappy, but it was even more unhappy for Wenger to overtake Arsenal to take the lead in the table.

Back at home, Arsenal prepare for their final game of December, with several veterans who started the last game out of the squad and Arsene Wenger setting up a 352 formation.

Ribery got another chance to start, but what made him even happier was that he would be playing alongside Liu Han in this match.

Arsene Wenger put Ribery up front in the hope of using his pace to attack the Leeds United defence, while his partner was Thierry Henry, who had to take a break from Bergkamp after a severe cold.

Liu Han officially played as a central midfielder for the first time in this game, although he was also in this position in the previous games, but nominally he is still a striker, but more will return to the central and backfield activities.

Their opponents, Leeds United, have been doing well in the league this year, sitting fifth in the league table, and because the average age of this team is less than 26 years old, they are known as the "Young Guard", with teams such as goalkeeper Paul Robinson, defender Woodgate, midfielder Lee Bowyer, Harry Colwill, and Alan Smith in the forward line all very good young talents in their mid-twenties, which makes many teams very optimistic about this team because they have a very good future.

Arsene Wenger has been hiding most of his main players in the game against Coventry City in preparation for this game against Leeds United, although it is an ordinary league, but it is still very important to be able to win against the Young Guards, after all, Leeds United is now expected to be Arsenal's main opponent in the league in the future. (To be continued.) )