Chapter 44: José and Arsena

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With a win over Deportivo La Coruna, Real Madrid face their first big opponent of the season, the third game of the Champions League group stage, against the seeded team Arsenal. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Arsenal are one of the traditional giants of English football, but their performances in the Champions League have been lackluster for most of the past decade. Every time Arsene Wenger's side were full of ambition to lift the Champions League trophy, but each time they came home empty-handed.

The team has a large number of fans because of their beautiful and passionate style of play, and the "professor" reuse of young players is also popular with many football fans who like to play FM games. This team is quite popular all over the world.

But maybe it's "since ancient times", Arsenal, who plays beautifully and seems to be a pleasing beauty, always lacks some championship life. In the domestic league, they were suppressed by Manchester United and even Chelsea, and their best result in the Champions League was reaching the final of the Champions League in 2006, only to lose to Barcelona.

At that time, Arsenal was in full swing, and Henry was in a purple state. They beat Real Madrid on their way to the final.

At the Bernabeu, Thierry Henry scored a brilliant goal as he beat a number of Real Madrid players in quick succession, including Ronaldo, Guti and Ramos, to shoot the ball into the goal of the Casillas goal.

The galactic's fatigue was evident in that match.

Now, six years have passed, and Real Madrid is no longer the Real Madrid of the original, and Arsenal is not the Arsenal of the original.

Arsene Wenger's Arsenal have enjoyed a glorious period, including a 38-game unbeaten run in the league and an unbeaten run in 49 of England's top flights. But the only regret is that I didn't win the Champions League. Why did King Henry of Highbury leave Arsenal in the first place? It was because he thought there was no hope of winning the Champions League at Arsenal, so he chose to transfer to Barcelona, where he would rather be a rotation player, and finally he won the European Champions Cup as he wished, completing the most desired title of his career.

Although everyone thinks that Arsenal's football is very good, it is frustrating to not win the championship all the time. And always losing in some inexplicable games, the instability of this team is really worrying. Arsene Wenger likes young people, but he can't cure the ups and downs of young people.

Arsene Wenger's goals for the team this season continue to include the Champions League, and he has won almost every trophy he can during his time at Arsenal, with the exception of the Champions League. He desperately needs such a title, otherwise no matter how long he has been in charge of Arsenal, no matter how many records he has set, no matter how beautiful his style of play, it will not work, and he may still be disgraced - although he has said more than once that he will not resign even if he has not won a title in six years.

Some people praise Arsene Wenger's football as a true uncrowned king, and even if he can't win a championship, it doesn't detract from the beauty of that kind of football. But only Arsene Wenger knows how desperate he is to win the Champions League, and he has worked so hard for too long to achieve that dream. In the past two seasons, Wenger's temper has become more and more irritable, and sometimes he even argues with opponents and referees without any blocking, and he can't find the elegant demeanor that "professor" should have.

This is obviously because he is under a lot of pressure. His sworn enemy, Manchester United led by his old rival Alex Ferguson, won one championship after another in English football, and won the European Champions Cup twice, what about himself?

He doesn't know how long he'll be with Arsenal and he'd like to retire here if he wants, but if he continues to keep the team out of the title, there's no telling what will happen in the future.

If he wants to win the title, he has to play well in the group stage, and he doesn't want to repeat last season's quarter-final defeat to Barcelona. As long as they can finish top of the group, they may avoid the other strong group winners and pick a team to play second in the group.

The most important opponent to win the group is to beat Real Madrid. The group stage has been played in two rounds, the first two group games, Real Madrid and Arsenal are all wins, according to their respective performances in the game, whether it is Benfica or Olympiacos, can hardly stop them, so the game to decide who can be the group leader is concentrated when these two teams meet.

Whoever wins will win the group and will have an advantage in the round of 16 draw.

Another reason why Arsenal must win against Real Madrid comes from a personal vendetta between the managers. Real Madrid manager Jose Mourinho had a conflict with Arsene Wenger when he was in the Premier League, and Mourinho once criticized Wenger as a voyeur who likes to spy on other people. Arsene Wenger, on the other hand, is very unaccustomed to Mourinho's arrogant approach. The two men often had a war of words when they were in the Premier League, and Mourinho often mocked Wenger for not winning the Champions League, when he was young and had already lifted the Champions League trophy, so everything was empty. Arsene Wenger, on the other hand, thinks Mourinho is nothing special.

Mourinho also compiled Arsene Wenger's remarks into a 120-page dossier. Arsene Wenger, on the other hand, dismissed Mourinho's behaviour as "reversing the order" and "rudeness", threatening to go to court.

But what Wenger found more unacceptable than the war of words was that he had not won against Mourinho in any of his past eight meetings with Mourinho...... What could be more infuriating? Your opponent is always attacking you, laughing at you, and insulting you in front of you, but you can't do anything about it, because you can't even defeat him.

In the 04-05 Premier League, Mourinho's first year at Chelsea, this season he drew two with Arsenal and finally won the league title, pulling the previous champion down. Arsene Wenger's Arsenal had just won the league title last season with a 38-game unbeaten run, and everyone was praising them as a sign that a new dynasty had begun. Unexpectedly, the arrival of Mourinho completely disrupted the rhythm of the Gunners, and also changed the pattern of Manchester United and Arsenal in the Premier League for a long time.

Ahead of the 05/06 Community Shield campaign, Arsene Wenger expressed his displeasure with Chelsea's dollar policy, criticising the Blues for monopolizing the transfer market with a lot of money. Mourinho sarcastically ridiculed Arsene Wenger for "not understanding the mysteries of transfer". It was the beginning of a war of words between the two men, and it was in that Community Shield that Mourinho tasted the thrill of beating Arsene Wenger for the first time.

In the league, Mourinho's Chelsea beat Arsene Wenger's Arsenal twice this season and finally won the league title.

And in this season's League Cup final, it was the total outbreak of resentment between Wenger and Mourinho. Jose Mourinho ridiculed Arsene Wenger before the game for not winning the Champions League, while Wenger said that there are many coaches who have won the Champions League, but not all of them are like Nottingham Forest's legendary manager Brian. Clough is like that, and he will be remembered for the rest of his life.

In the game, the smell of gunpowder on both sides was also very strong. There was a massive clash between the two sides, with Mikel, Toure and Bam Adebayor being sent off, but this time it was Mourinho who had the last laugh...... In the 07-06 season, Mourinho was suddenly out of class, and he didn't even have time to continue spitting on Wengerhu. And just after Grant accepted Mourinho, Arsene Wenger's Arsenal beat Chelsea 1-0 at home in the league, finally avenging it, but it always gave people a sense of loss. Because it wasn't Arsene Wenger who beat Mourinho, but his stand-in, a guy called Grant.

Of course, Arsene Wenger is not completely unbeaten by Jose Mourinho, as his Arsenal beat Inter Milan 2-1 in the 2008 Emirates Cup, and Inter Milan's manager at the time was Jose. Jose Mourinho. But the outcome of this kind of informal game is nothing to mention for the two bigwigs, and Arsene Wenger doesn't get angry about beating Mourinho in this kind of game, and Mourinho doesn't mean that losing to Arsene Wenger in a friendly is a big deal. They only have an eye on official competitions, such as leagues, such as the Champions Cup.

Now the two have a chance to continue their grievances.

Of course, it is the media that is most happy, which means that they have another hype gimmick.

In fact, they didn't need to find a way to provoke, and the two managers had already begun to spit on each other.

"I'm surprised that a manager like Arsene Wenger can continue to be in the Arsenal manager's position. "The war of words was started by Mourinho first, and it was clear that it was a psychological war." He has reigned for six years in a row, but he has not won a single title. If it were me, I wouldn't have had to wait for the club to give me notice and I would have resigned. ”

Arsenal have missed out on any title for six years in a row, which is a wound for Arsenal. Mourinho is rubbing salt in people's wounds.

When Chu Zhongtian read his head coach's remarks in the newspaper, he felt a little excessive. As the saying goes, you don't hit people in the face, and you don't expose people's shortcomings, which is really too vicious...... Of course, the media with good things will not let go of this hype feast. They relayed Mourinho's exact words during the interview with Arsene Wenger and then asked Wenger what he thought about it.

Arsene Wenger's face was very ugly.

His answer was also quite unkind.

"That's because I never use unconventional means to win. I'm not going to bash the referee after being eliminated from the Champions League and I'm not going to make enemies everywhere. Football is a very great sport and does not equal the number of championships. ”

In fact, when it comes to the championship, Wenger's confidence is indeed weaker. He could have been more aggressive on the counter-attack six years ago, when his side recorded the longest unbeaten run in the history of the English top flight, which was a remarkable achievement. The whole world is praising Arsenal's style of play.

But now the media is not praising Arsenal's football, and there is more and more talk about them losing key games and retiring early on the way to the title. "Arsenal lost the crucial battle to win the title!" "A typical 'Arsenal-style failure'!" "The third line collapsed in sixteen days, what else can I say?" …… Headlines like these are a true reflection of Arsenal's two seasons.

Even the most die-hard Arsenal fans will feel helpless - their football is very beautiful and very pleasing to the eye, but why do they sometimes lose? It's okay to lose to an invincible team like Barcelona, and even those weak teams can lose in the league...... If there is a problem on one front, all three fronts will collapse.

The war of words between Arsene Wenger and Jose Mourinho is not over.

In an interview with reporters, Mourinho very happily recalled the record of the first meeting with Arsene Wenger in the Premier League: "Huh? Didn't he even win against me? Oops, if you don't say it, I'll forget...... It seems that this is really the case, I have not lost to him once in eight meetings, four wins and four draws. So I don't have any worries about the midweek game, we have a psychological advantage......"

Jose Mourinho is trying to completely anger Arsene Wenger.

The feud between the two has not abated with Mourinho's departure from the Premier League. Mourinho had planned to buy Cesc Fabregas this summer, but Wenger was reluctant to let Cesc Fabregas go. This ultimately led to the aborted transfer deal. In fact, Wenger knows that he can't keep Cesc Fabregas, as long as Real Madrid's manager is not Mourinho, maybe he will agree to this transfer deal worth 60 million euros. But Real Madrid's manager is Jose Mourinho, and perhaps he would rather give Cesc Fabregas to Barcelona for free than sell his henchman to Real Madrid.

But maybe Mourinho has to thank Arsene Wenger for this. If it weren't for Wenger's tough attitude and refusal to sell Cesc Fabregas to Real Madrid, Florentino would not have had a chance to buy Chu Zhongtian for 70 million euros, and Real Madrid may not be able to find the most suitable core figure for him so far...... Anyway, Real Madrid is in very good shape now, and the run-in between Chu Zhongtian, the new core, and the new team is becoming more and more tacit.

All because Arsene Wenger refused to sell Cesc Fabregas to Real Madrid in the first place.

※※※ The war of words between the two managers began a week before the game and gradually approached its peak as the match day approached.

Even players from both sides were added.

C. Ronaldo played for Manchester United when he was in the Premier League, and his hatred with Arsenal has not been a day or two, and a player like him who likes to be in the limelight must be the target of the opposing fans in the game against Arsenal. This time he also stood up and challenged his old rival: "I have a lot of respect for Arsenal, but in the end it will be us who will win. I think we're in really good shape as a team. ”

In response to C. Ronaldo's arrogant statement, Arsenal's star Robin van Persie countered: "We will give them a taste at the Emirates Stadium. Here, Barcelona have not been able to beat us, let alone Real Madrid. ”

Another form of revenge by the Arsenal players against the Real Madrid players is to praise the football of Real Madrid's arch-rivals Barcelona. Arshavin said he admired Barcelona football. "I almost joined Barcelona and I would say that their football is very appealing to me. Real Madrid's football is boring in comparison, and I don't think anyone likes this team. ”

"Originally, Real Madrid's football was very good, but since Mourinho came...... Everybody knows what's going on......" Danish striker Bentner was even more dismissive.

This, of course, can anger many Real Madrid fans, including some players.

Although Bam Adebayor has only played for Real Madrid for more than half a season, he has clearly considered himself a Real Madridist through and through. When he first joined Real Madrid on loan, he declared that he would never go to Barcelona, he would only come to Real Madrid to play.

As a former Arsenal player, he also expressed his opinion: "I miss playing at Arsenal, but it's a pity that there is a lack of temperament, I think it's the temperament of a champion. It doesn't matter if we don't win there, as long as we can play well. But at Real Madrid, it's not just about winning beautiful, it's about winning titles. I love the atmosphere because it's uplifting, motivating and motivating......"

Of course, his remarks were quickly reprimanded by the Arsenal players. Walcott directly called Adebayo a "despicable traitor". When he played for Manchester City, he vented his anger in the game against Arsenal, first trampling Van Persie, angering Arsenal's defender Song, and then passing the entire Arsenal defense, scoring a goal, and then rushing 90 meters to the stands where Arsenal fans gathered to celebrate, provoking Arsenal fans.

So to be honest, his popularity at Arsenal is really poor...... Van Persie responded to Adebayor's remarks: "He also doesn't want to think about who brought him from Monaco to Arsenal in the first place and made him famous? He didn't have a good time at Arsenal because he never made this team his home, he claimed he only played for money, so I wasn't surprised that he left Arsenal and went to the kind of team at Manchester City. ”

In these war of words, Chu Zhongtian was very low-key. He didn't make any offensive language, whether it was a Chinese journalist, a Spanish journalist, a British journalist interviewed him, he said that Arsenal deserves respect, he likes Arsenal's style of play, but he also thinks that Real Madrid is a great team, this is a close game, and it will definitely give the fans a classic battle.

Such words are worthless to journalists, because they are typical polite words and spectacle words. The meaning behind these words may be very different from this, but no one knows what it means.

Maybe that's what he thinks, maybe he's just trying to paralyze the opposing player.

In short, after such a report is reported, it will not attract the slightest attention in the fierce war of words.

This disappointed many people who were expecting Chu Zhongtian to say something cruel - as a player worth 70 million euros, how could he be so impersonal?

(To be continued)