Chapter 21 Advancing in the Roughs

The news of the unbeaten Arsenal being held to a balloon draw quickly became a big anecdote in world football, and despite the frustration of Arsene Wenger, he had to accept that his side could only go into the Christmas schedule with a one-point advantage.

It's just that the ridicule and attention of the media did not stay with Arsenal for long, because after the match with Newcastle, European football ushered in a new round of national team competitions, and the final round of European Championship qualifiers is about to start this weekend, Italy, France, England, Portugal, Germany...... The major European giants, except for Greece, Poland, Croatia, Spain, and Romania, which have already confirmed their qualification, will decide their own life and death after this round of matches.

Two of the most exciting matches are Italy vs. Scotland on 17 November and England against Croatia on 18 November.

Both pairs of enemies are direct opponents in the qualifiers, but Scotland is currently one position behind Italy, Croatia has determined the right to qualify, but it is the England national team, they have been criticized in this qualifier under the leadership of McClaren, the "double Germany" problem, the captain's dispute, tactical conservativeness, doping incidents, England after a series of blows, until the last round to hold the fate in their own hands, this game, as long as they draw Croatia can grasp the initiative, The English press called it a "duel that could not be lost".

But on November 8, at Wembley Stadium, after 90 minutes of fighting, England fans were dead. Some people whispered and sobbed, and some people scolded, and McLaren sat in the coach's box, like a pin, and across from him, the bright red scoreboard recorded a few huge numbers of 3:2.

The Croatians really showed their "sportsmanship" this time around, and they kept the English out of Euro 2008 finals when they were already sure of qualifying!

The media in England couldn't imagine what a European Championship without England would look like. But they couldn't go to Belgium and Austria to prove it with their own eyes, they just knew. This defeat for England. It has brought at least 300 million economic losses to the UK.

McLaren is a sinner in all Britain!

England's fans roared from the bottom of their hearts, and this time, the usually hard-mouthed FA did not dare to disagree with the fans anymore, and they announced the dismissal of McLaren the day after the game. The England manager, who had dreamed of resigning and was reluctant to resign, eventually left Great Britain in disgrace. He went back to the Netherlands to find his new life.

England fans sang a silent lament for the national team. At this time, Descartes was concerned about the current situation of the Italian national team.

Italy stubbornly beat Scotland 2-1 in the match a day ahead of England, plus the Frenchman missed out on the snow and ice in Ukraine. Before this game, Donadoni, who was originally in the same condition as McLaren, unexpectedly led the Italian national team to the first place in the group!

What's even more amazing is that Italy came out of the group as the first in the group, but the domestic media is in mourning, Donadoni has been in office for less than a year, and the relationship with the media has been on the same footing, the media have tried to launch several "inverted" actions, and finally disappeared under the support of the Football Association, originally thought that he brought the Italian national team to the brink of going out, and finally had a chance to let him get out, who knew that fools have stupid blessings, he and McLaren embarked on two completely different paths: a roll to cover the eggs, The other saved a small life!

But even if McClarenford had a big life and stumbled to bring Italy to the finals of the European Championship, no one is optimistic about his national team, first of all, because of the dim star of this national team, especially the midfielders, Di Natale, Rossi, Di Michele, Culiarella, Iaquinta...... Okay, there are enough people, but if you look at European football, how many first-rate players are these people?

In addition, the core of the team also looks old, Pirlo, Buffon, Cannavaro, Materazzi, Zambrotta, Grosso, the entire backline combined, at least more than 180 years old, who would dare to have confidence in such a team?

So even if the Italian team unexpectedly won the right to qualify as the group leader, the media still never stopped singing about Donadoni, recruiting Piero, recruiting Totti, recruiting Cassano, recruiting Cartes, the media will put forward at least a dozen names in the newspaper every day, asking Donadoni to "obey the will of the people" to bring these people to Austria and Belgium, but Donadoni is really stubborn, he would rather not deal with any media, rather than change the plan in his mind.

This made Descartes full of worries, he had already been a spectator at the World Cup, and whether he would not even be able to appear on the national team's training ground at the European Championship two years later.

In a last-ditch effort, Descartes returned to Italy in the off-season to try to reconcile with Mr. Bonetto and Donadoni.

In fact, the relationship between the two has long ceased to be tense, but last time Descartes was ready to apologize, Donadoni was unwilling to promise him playing time, so the two eventually evolved into a bland relationship, this time back, Descartes is ready to bow his head, as long as he can enter the national team, he believes that his talent will be reused one day.

But before he could express his sincerity to the national team coaching staff, Donadoni had already changed his tune, only this time he was not calling up Descartes, but Cassano, a bad boy from Bari.

Cassano was originally far away in Real Madrid in Spain this season, but after he went to Real Madrid, he had a bad temper again, and was banned by the team because he went out late at night.

In order not to let his future be annihilated, Cassano chose to contact the Italian domestic team Sampdoria, with whom he basically reached an agreement that he would move from Real Madrid to Samp at the end of the season. Thus he began his football career in Italy again.

Cassano's "prodigal son" made Sampdoria coach Del Neri strongly recommend Donadoni in front of Donadoni, and he is one of the few strikers in Italy who has not had a problem with Donadoni, so Dondoni also accepted Del Neri's suggestion and recruited him to the national team to try.

With the addition of another man to the already crowded forward line, Descartes' national team path looks to be completely sealed.

Sure enough, the undying Descartes sent a tentative signal to the national team through Mr. Bonetto, but received a desperate response: "The national team's forward line is already overcrowded, and if there are no major injuries, the squad for the European Championship is basically like this." ”

This saddened Descartes, who had come back from England, and playing for his country was his greatest lifelong dream. Unexpectedly, he was repeatedly rejected. Descartes really felt disgusted with Donadoni from the bottom of his heart this time, and he quietly told his father, Mr. Javier, that wherever Donadoni was in the future, there would be no him. He never wanted to see this person again.

With a full stomach full of sadness. Descartes tried to find some comfort in Angeli. Unexpectedly, the little girl was still angry about what happened to him and Zhenma, so she gave him a look of saltiness and indifference, and then walked away sullenly. Descartes, who was bent on solace, did not enjoy the fiery red lips. On the contrary, I have to let go of my frustration to comfort my sweetheart, and swear to prove that I have repented, and I will never derail on the road of emotion again, no matter what is in front of the wine pond meat forest, Rushan Langhai, and never take a wrong half step again!

After coaxing and deceiving for a long time, the little girl's face turned cloudy and clear, and finally forgave him for his "technical mistake" this time, but An Jieli also said that after graduating from high school, she would go to London in person to supervise him, a "sinner" who made mistakes.

It is always painful and happy to be with his sweetheart, and after a moment of sea water and a moment of fire, Descartes must hurry back to England again, because the national team competition is over, and the Premier League will be rekindled, this time, the devilish 10 days and 4 matches will be in front of him.

The first game on the Devils' schedule is at home to derby rivals Tottenham Hotspur. Tottenham's start to the season has been a bit slow compared to last season's performances, with them sitting 16th in the league after 15 games, and Sergio Ramos, who spent a lot of money in the summer but almost brought the team into the relegation zone, is now sitting on a hot pot in a north London derby.

But after the game, Ramos looked up to the sky and sighed, "Only one step away, Taylor, we are only one step away" (when reading this sentence, please imagine the picture of Fu Biao crying in "The Big Bowl"), his team was killed by Arsenal in the 89th minute of the game, Descartes, and Descartes, he vented his frustration at Tottenham Hotspur that he could not be selected for the national team, and a powerful shot full of anger made Ramos and his uniform team sink their whole hearts into the abyss.

As expected, just two days after the end of this game, Tottenham Hotspur announced the decision to terminate the coaching contract with Ramos at the end of this season, although he still has half a season to play with the team, but at the beginning of the Sevilla scenery, and now he has left with a lot of infamy, how much pain Ramos has in his heart, I am afraid only he can know.

After "sending off" Ramos, Arsenal welcomed another London City neighbour, Chelsea.

In a big difference from the last time we met, Chelsea's dugout was no longer filled with the madman Mourinho, but with Abu's good friend the Israeli Afran. Grant.

In September this year, Uncle Bird broke up with Chelsea because of the poor results of the team, and the famous coach who single-handedly stirred up the Premier League after coming to England actually left Stamford Bridge in such a way, which is really embarrassing.

Although the reason for Chelsea's parting with him on the surface was due to poor results, everyone knows that the real problem lies with the owner Abu and his disagreement. Abu asks for both beautiful football and championships, and has a nouveau riche feeling that fish and bear's paws can be bought, but Mourinho believes that fish and bear's paws can only be eaten, so there is a huge difference in philosophy between him and the boss, the team's poor record, everyone knows that it is because of too many injuries, but Abu pretends not to see it, and is bent on sending away the high-achieving Mnirio, so that the team can become the embodiment of his personal will.

So the divorce case that shocked the world football world in September happened. It was so fast that even Chelsea's arch-enemies Lord Ferguson and Professor Arsene Wenger could not react, and by the time they understood what had happened, the Chelsea boss was already sitting on the bald Israeli side.

The flowers are similar every year, but the people are different every year.

For the departure of the magic bird, of course, Lord Fergus and Arsene Wenger can only be described as jubilant, the Blues have snatched the Premier League title for two consecutive years under his leadership, both Lord Ferguson and the professor have regarded him as another important enemy in life, but I didn't expect Abu to destroy the Great Wall and drive Mourinho away like this. Doesn't this make the lord and the professor wake up secretly laughing in the middle of the night?

The Blues who lost Jose Mourinho did not lose their spirit. But on the pitch it is easy to feel that they have changed dramatically from before, the most important of which is that their tactical discipline is no longer the same as before, giving the impression of a sophisticated machine, although Grant has the backing of his boss Abu. But vice-captains John Terry and Frank Lampard have shown no fear of him at all. Lost the awe of the manager. Naturally, the Blues' performances on the pitch have become a bit loose.

Taking advantage of this loose momentum, Arsenal beat Chelsea 1-0 on the road, making it two wins in a row in the Devil's schedule.

Arsene Wenger, who got off to a good start, smiled. Originally intended to make persistent efforts to win a perfect devil's journey, who thought that 3 days later, Arsenal, which had a large rotation, was beaten by Portsmouth away from home, and the score of 0:0 was not a true reflection of the performance on the field, according to the "Daily Mail" reporter's comment, "Arsenal did not concede 3 goals in this game".

The game with Portsmouth once again confirmed the professor's poor rotation, he changed the team's two wings at once, Rosicky and Diaby's appearance did not bring pressure to Portsmouth's side, Adebayo and Descartes on the front line became a "failure" in the mouth of the media, Eduardo and Bendtner, Van Persie took turns, but in the 90 minutes can only stare at Portsmouth's iron bucket in a daze, a dull game, so that Manchester United, which was already 7 points behind, caught up again.

The draw drove the professor mad even more than the pink balloon, and he went into a rage in the last game of the Devil's schedule on January 2, changing all the starting lineups from the previous game, even the team's core Cesc Fabregas was not spared, and he had to sit on the bench in displeasure.

Unexpectedly, Arsenal, who was half of the main team and half of the substitutes, made a big splash in this round of the game, and they bloodied Everton 4:1 with the Toffees, achieving the biggest score in this round.

Descartes was put in the starting lineup in the first half by the annoyed professor, and Everton, who did not expect Descartes to come on so early, were caught off guard by Arsenal three times in 30 minutes, Descartes scored a goal and provided two assists, Adebayo and Alexander. Song's overhead kick sealed the win for Arsenal with ease, and by the time Moyes reacted and sent Rodwell to limit Descartes, his side had already surrendered.

After that, although Everton scored a face-saving goal, but Adebayo's brace completely killed the game, and the professor's thoughtful eyes after the game made the main players on the bench tremble.

The stimulated main players performed desperately in the next training, and the state was much better than when they played against Portsmouth, the professor didn't say a word on the sidelines, but turned around and hid in the office and snickered: Small, don't think that the old man's psychology degree is taken for nothing, at this time of the season, who dares to his tail The old man dares to take him down, if he doesn't work hard, why win the championship?

Of course, what makes the professor even happier is that Descartes, who got out of the peach dispute, although he failed to return to the national team, left his good form to the club, since the "world war" with Manchester United, Descartes has scored 4 goals in the subsequent games, and contributed 5 assists, improving his assist statistics this season to double digits, second only to the team's number one core Fabregas, his position in the Arsenal forward line is becoming more and more important, the professor seems to have seen, after Henry's departure, Arsenal's forward line has another killer to rely on. (To be continued......)