He Xu's first season at Arsenal ended like this. Second in the Premier League, FA Cup winners, Champions League round of 16. Three results with the team. No. 2 in the scorer list, No. 2 in the "Premier League Best Player" selection, and second in the "Best Foreign Player Selection". These results seem to show that He Xu's performance is still very good.

In addition, as captain, he was also voted the team's Most Valuable Player of the season internally. Although there are no trophies or medals or anything like that, the team has provided him with a generous but decent bonus. This made He Xu a little surprised, but he didn't have any special feelings about this bonus, after all, under the scheduling and operation of Susan Ge, his Sun Sporting Goods Company had made a lot of money. The shirt sponsorship fee received from Real Madrid every season alone is a lot of income. What's more, after solving Real Madrid, Susan Ge extended his clutches to the Chinese national football team.

Therefore, He Xu's own bonus was very generously distributed equally to all his first-team teammates. This made his players a little cool after the league ended. Because the relationship between the two of them has been completely revealed, the two of them invited everyone to their home to play a lap after the end of the season. Even Arsene Wenger and his wife were invited, and Wenger changed his usual seriousness and talked and laughed with his players. After the end of this day, everyone has a new understanding of He Xu's beautiful girlfriend, that is, this girl's cooking is so delicious! Maybe not. There are only Garrincha and Massimo who used to often go to He Xu's house to eat He Xu's cooking. Charlie. These two people know that Elena's level can only be said to be about the same as He Xu.

This is the team's last dinner at the end of the season, as many people will return to their respective national teams in a few days to prepare for the upcoming World Cup. He Xu still remembers that when he was about to say goodbye, Garrincha, Massimo. Charlie has Wilshire and other teammates who are also young people who are going to play in the World Cup for the first time, joking with each other and praying not to touch each other. He Xu didn't care at that time. Because at this time he was very confident. The current Chinese team will not be afraid of any opponent.

Maybe it's because He Xu's confidence is so strong that even God can't stand it. So, after the end of the grouping draw ceremony. He Xu was greatly taken aback. He has a decent memory. Therefore, he was surprised to find that the World Cup grouping this time was actually the same as the World Cup grouping of this year's World Cup that he experienced in his previous life. Exactly. Except, of course, that the Chinese national team replaced Iran and entered the round of thirty-two. However, it is precisely because of this that they are in the same group as the Argentine team led by the football king Messi, which has a lot of momentum this time.

But fortunately, Nigeria and Bosnia and Herzegovina are not strong teams in the same group. He Xu and his teammates could only comfort themselves like this and build confidence in themselves.

After the end of the league, many players returned to the national team's training camp in advance, although the World Cup is approaching, but there is still due training and warm-up. Among the players who play in the UK, in addition to He Xu and their Arsenal group, there is only Hu Feng, oh, this time I have to add a Zhang Dele. The right wing-back, who has gradually begun to settle in the main position at Manchester United, is completely at opposite ends of the spectrum with his partner on the left side of the national team. He is not as happy as Cui Jiantao, nor is he as silent as Yang Ruiqi, and in general, he is still very liked by his teammates.

While a group of people from the Premier League showed up at the training base in Dalian, Liang Yuan and Jin Shikai were leading the Spanish and German players, as well as the Netherlands and Italy, and of course, the domestic players.

There are only two main players left, Liang Zhao and Yang Ruiqi, because they have to participate in the final of the UEFA Champions League in Portugal.

For these two guys who returned to the team late, in fact, He Xu is still very envious, after all, He Xu has not played in the final of the Champions League! Not to mention other people, so for Liang Zhao and Yang Ruiqi, who were still preparing for the war in Portugal at this time, everyone's hearts were a little envious, jealous and hateful.

Liang Yuan actually wanted to lead his players to the scene to feel the atmosphere of the Champions League, and let his players learn something by the way, but unfortunately, such a tiring journey was really a big drain on the physical strength of his players. I have to say that Liang Yuan is still a very skillful head coach, because he is worried that his players are overtired, so he doesn't know what means he used, and he actually made all the head coaches of the teams with him warm-up games, and the entire warm-up games before the World Cup were all held in Dalian, during this time, the Chinese players saved a lot of bumps and fatigue in addition to training.

During this time, in addition to grinding in tactics, their task was only to recuperate.

Liang Yuan has silently stabilized the team's formation and lineup, originally he wanted to create a special "3-5-2" formation like Wenger. But the appearance of Zhang Dele completely made him completely free of the embarrassment of not having a good right wing-back available. Therefore, a "4-3-3" that had been planned in his heart for a long time came into being.

The goalkeeper is naturally Hu Feng, who has been training in the Premier League for a year, and his performance has given him his own fan base and has been recognized by everyone. On the back line, Cui Jiantao and Zhang Dele are separated, and the central defender is Yang Ruiqi's partner Chen Boyan, which is already a very solid combination of offense and defense. The midfield of three people is naturally a combination of a single back and two front waists. Li Bo is in the back waist position, attacking and defending as a whole, two front waists, Liang Zhao and Tang Lintian, the attack ability of such a front waist combination is also strong enough. Looking at the front court again, the lineup is stronger, the three forwards are very loose and free, Jing Yu is active on the side, and He Xu is at the front, as for Xu Yang, this shadow killer follows He Xu's activities, which is naturally the best.

Now Liang Zhao is still far away in Europe, so his position is temporarily replaced by the former captain Zheng directly, but it has become a double back and a single front waist. Chen Bo is naturally a super substitute, after all, his physical condition is not as good as He Xu, and this kind of recuperation seems to be able to help him in his next performance.

In the first warm-up match, the opponent of the Chinese national team was Iran, which directly lost this chance to qualify because of He Xu's crossing. Although the West Asian powerhouses have not been able to break out of Asia, their strength is still good, and in this case, it seems to be very good as the first touchstone before the Chinese national team's World Cup journey.

In this game, He Xu scored twice, and Chen Bo, who came off the bench, also scored a goal, relying on the former Inter Milan's striker double, the Chinese national team won the first game of the warm-up game, which can be regarded as a good start.

In the next few games, the Chinese national team performed well, without Yang Ruiqi partnering with Chen Boyan, Chen Boyan obviously struggled when he partnered with the substitute central defender, but fortunately, Li Bo and Zheng Zhi recycled the defense from time to time, helping him relieve some of the pressure. Compared with the overstretched defense with one less person, Tang Lintian in the front court can be regarded as completing the task of organizing the attack alone. In the last warm-up game before Liang Zhao and Yang Ruiqi returned to the team, Liang Yuan boldly used a "4-1-1-4" formation and put Chen Bo and He Xu as partners.

In that game, they slaughtered Qatar, the host of the 2022 World Cup, 8-0, although it seemed a little incomprehensible. But this hearty victory has given Chinese fans a lot of confidence.

The next day, they all had a holiday. Because on that day, Liang Yuan arranged a special task for them, and let them all go to watch the live broadcast of the final of the 2013~2014 UEFA Champions League.

The game was a thrilling affair, with the winger combination of Ribery and Arjen Robben, plus a makeshift to replace the injured Mandzukic in the starting centre-forward position for Thomas. Muller, such an offensive combination is sharp enough. It stands to reason that Barcelona's backline is indeed a little weak now, but fortunately, Guardiola still relied on his wits to think of solutions other than recruitment.

His "3-4-3" formation has begun to take shape, under his creation, Xavi and Iniesta are still thriving on the wings, and Liang Zhao, who has been squeezed so that Cesc Fabregas gradually has no position, is in this position in the front midfield, which seems to have made Barcelona fans gradually forget that Xiaofa is the best candidate for this position in their minds.

Just one minute into the game, Liang Zhao made a very tricky long-range shot from outside the penalty area, and Neuer blocked the ball from the bottom line with difficulty.

Subsequently, Bayern Munich, which had no luxury attack on the frontcourt, did not set off a few decent offensives, but was always pressed and beaten by Barcelona. Although this is normal because of Barcelona's tactics, with the strength of Bayern Munich, it is obviously not like this.

Ninety minutes later, the score was fixed at 3-2, Liang Zhao scored, Messi scored, and Neymar scored, and the goals of these three made Muller's brace look colorless.

Barcelona successfully defended their title and won three consecutive titles.

While He Xu sighed that Barcelona was so powerful, he was still thinking about more important things in his heart.

Brazil, here we come! (To be continued......)

PS: The World Cup chapter is about to begin, so stay tuned.