Chapter 117: Public Enemy

Zhang Tiehan's roar was very exciting, but it offended many Arsenal media and fans, and Zhang Tiehan's rough voice came out, and they could all hear it clearly.

They were somewhat incredulous.

This guy dares to describe Arsenal as a woman and they themselves are men, which is purely a direct insult!

They turned to rage!

Jewell walked behind the team, seeing this, he smiled bitterly, and hurriedly urged everyone to leave as soon as possible, who knows what these angry Arsenal fans will do, the poor security guards at the airport, and a few police officers who maintain order can play a pitiful role.

Next, Wigan Athletic went to the hotel where it was set, and when the arrangements were made together, it was time for dinner, and after dinner, Jewell told everyone to rest and prepare for tomorrow's game.

The next morning, the whole team gathered and took a bus to the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff.

The Millennium Stadium is the home of the Welsh football team, opened in 1999 by the Welsh Rugby Union to host the 1999 World Cup Rugby Tournament, at a cost of £126 million, the stadium has a capacity of 74,500 spectators, and is the second stadium in Europe and the largest in the world with a canopy.

As London's Wembley Stadium is being rebuilt, it will be the venue for the English League Cup and FA Cup finals.

Compared to JJB Stadium, Wembley Stadium is much larger, not only in terms of the number of seats, but also in the surrounding facilities and the internal planning facilities of the stadium. It is also the third largest stadium in England, behind Wembley Stadium, which is being rebuilt, and Old Trafford, home of Manchester United.

In a sense. It is the same icon of national football as Wembley Stadium. Wembley Stadium is the symbol of England and Millennium Stadium is the symbol of the Welsh national team.

After entering the court, Zhang Tiehan and his teammates went to the locker room, and then went to a grass field for warm-up training under the leadership of head coach Jewell and assistant coach St. Brown.

The place where they train is just a piece of turf on the side of the Millennium Stadium, which was arranged for them by the players' staff, after all, the game will not start until the afternoon. At the same time, in the other direction of the stadium, Arsenal is also conducting morning training, and the two teams are very tacitly doing their own training, most of which are mainly ordinary tactical training. It's tactical training, but it's just a matter of getting the players to move so that they can get into the groove faster by the afternoon game.

The intensity of such training can be imagined.

The only difference is Zhang Tiehan, his training is not so easy, a few days before coming to Cardiff, Jewell asked him to do some shooting training in terms of single ball, and Zhang Tiehan is also doing it seriously. He knew what Jewell and the coaching staff meant.

In the game, the team will definitely be very passive.

The opponent is Arsenal, the gap between the team and Arsenal is huge, and the situation will definitely be very passive. Then if you want to score goals, you have to rely on counterattacks, and if you want to counterattack to score goals, it depends a lot on his speed. If he can play well on the counter-attack, he is likely to get a one-on-one chance. That's when this kind of training comes in handy.

Training single-knife ball is actually a kind of temporary mental training.

When you dribble the ball straight in front of the goalkeeper alone. It's exciting, you're looking forward to scoring, it's very rare, but at the same time it's very stressful, and if you can't score the ball, it's hard to imagine, and it's a shame to waste such a good chance.

In this mentality, it is not easy to score the ball, especially against a world-class goalkeeper.

If you get nervous or want to think about it, you lose momentum, and it's even harder to score goals. In addition, in the process of shooting, there is a kind of psychological battle with the goalkeeper. It is not easy for the goalkeeper to save the one-on-one goal, because the distance is too close and there is too little time to react, but if the goalkeeper can predict the angle of the shot, as long as he seals that angle, he is likely to hold the goal, so he must deflect past the goalkeeper, or shoot as fast as possible so that the goalkeeper cannot cope.

Obviously, the latter is more suitable for Zhang Tiehan.

In addition to Zhang Tiehan, Riedell also did a lot of training, he just officially returned to the team to train the day before yesterday, only two days, the state has not fully recovered, he still needs more time to adapt to the game, but the game will not wait, he can only seize all the time, and teammates to do coordination, tactical training.

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By noon, the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff was already bustling.

Various news media and reporters rushed over, and many fans began to gather outside the stadium to cheer for their respective teams after the start of the afternoon game.

Wigan Athletic fans are relatively pitiful, occasionally you can see fans wearing Wigan Athletic jerseys, most of them come to Cardiff from Wigan to support the team, this type of fans combined, there are only a few hundred, in the dense tens of thousands of people, it is really inconspicuous to pick out a few hundred.

There are also plenty of neutral fans.

After all, it's Cardiff, it's not London, it's not Wigan, the fans who come to watch the game are still mainly local fans, they may support the more famous Arsenal, but if Wigan Athletic performs well, they will also support Wigan Athletic, this is neutral fans, they don't have any special position, they just come to watch the game, for them, the best thing is to play the game.

In the crowd of fans, noon flickered by, and in the afternoon the stadium began to get busy.

Both teams went to their respective locker rooms.

The two dressing rooms of the stadium are the north wing dressing room and the south wing dressing room, and the allocation of the two dressing rooms is determined by the draw between the two teams, in fact, it is not necessary to do so, but there is a 'fatalism' at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, which says that the team in the south wing dressing room is destined to lose the game.

This argument comes from some match data.

For example, in the 2002 FA Cup final, Chelsea were in the south wing dressing room. Then they lost the game; Arsenal in 2001, also in the South Wing dressing room. They also lost the score; In addition, Preston North End who participated in the play-offs did not escape this fate.

In short, the stats show that the teams that have used the dressing rooms in the south wing of Cardiff's Millennium Stadium have not been able to win in many major tournaments.

So the two teams had an early locker room draw. As a result, Wigan Athletic were lucky to occupy the north wing dressing room, while Arsenal had to access the south wing dressing room, which had caused them pain.

"This is God's favor for us!" After entering the locker room, Brekin prayed.

The others laughed too.

In fact, most players don't believe in fate, but it is still quite important for Wigan Athletic to give their own reasons to beat their opponents, at least from the dressing room, God is on their side.

After changing into the locker room, everyone was ready to warm up before the game.

With just over an hour to go before the start of the game, they had forty-five minutes to warm up. The rest of the time includes interviews, tactical set-ups, etc., and there is not much time left for them.

Everyone got their things in order and followed Stellang to the playing field, while head coach Jewell was on his way to the pre-match press conference.

The real Cardiff stadium looks huge, the crowd of seats in the audience is too dense to count, and many players are excited to walk into such a stadium. But Zhang Tiehan didn't feel anything, he played at Old Trafford, and it was no worse than here.

After they stayed in one goal for more than ten minutes, the Arsenal players in red jerseys also walked into the playing field to start warming up.

Everyone looked at it.

Leading the way is midfielder Patrick Vieira. He was walking into the pitch with Thierry Henry, laughing and talking, and behind them, Arsenal players followed one after another. There are a lot of familiar faces among them, like Pire, Ashley Cole, Campbell, and many more. These stars are often seen on TV.

Now that they can compete with these stars, many Wigan Athletic players feel a little dreamy.

Arsenal players, meanwhile, are also talking about Wigan Athletic.

"Look. They are Wigan Athletic! ”

"Blue and white jerseys? They are very similar to Chelsea......

"They must be happy to hear you say that."

'But really, they seem to have won against Chelsea and knocked Chelsea out.'

"What a nice job! By the way, where is their number three? That guy was talking about us as women, and I had to get to know us! A brown-skinned man with a flat head said viciously, it was none other than Brazilian player Gilberto Silva.

Piret smiled and pointed over, "Look! Be there! He's watching you! ”

Gilberto Silva looked in the direction of Pire's finger, and then saw Zhang Tiehan, who was also looking over, and the two glared at each other viciously.

"Look at that guy staring at you!" Piret seems to be afraid that the world will not be in chaos.

Of course, Silva saw it, and at the instigation of his teammates, he walked towards Wigan Athletic's side, no, it should be said that he walked towards Zhang Tiehan, warming up before the game, there is a default rule without provisions, that is, players on both sides cannot cross the line, otherwise any conflict will be attributed to the players who cross the line.

Silva knew this, so he stopped in front of the middle line and shouted at Zhang Tiehan, "Hey, that kid, who do you say is a woman?" As he spoke, he pounded his chest hard, as if to show his strength.

Zhang Tiehan will also taste it, it turns out that this person is here to 'take revenge'!

He smiled at his teammates and walked over as well, pointing at Silva, "That's you!" ”

"Boy, you have the guts!" Silva said viciously, turned his head to look around, and asked Piret to throw a football, he set up the football, just near the center circle, and kicked the ball directly towards the goal with a big foot, and the football and the foot collided with a thumping sound, showing unusual strength.

Silva is indeed strong, he is 187CM tall, his body is very strong, the muscles in his arms and chest are bulging, and he looks like a strong man.

It was a shocking kick and the Arsenal players applauded, and they naturally wanted to support their team-mates.

It's just that the Wigan Athletic players don't feel anything......

In training, they have seen too many Zhang Tiehan's powerful shots, and Silva's kick looks good. But compared with Zhang Tiehan's pure and powerful shooting, there is still a bit of a gap. They were dismissive and thought Arsenal was nothing more than that!

Then Bregin threw a soccer ball over as well.

Zhang Tiehan received the football. Put the football on the grass, and then look at Silva who is more than twenty meters away, "Woman, look at it!" He shouted.

Silva listened with rage!

Zhang Tiehan didn't look back, he was waving his foot at Silva, not even running, just when everyone didn't understand what he was going to do, his right foot had close contact with the football, and then the football was rushing straight towards Silva. It's so fast that you can't even fight back!

Silva was stunned, and subconsciously twisted to the left, and felt a strong wind rush in front of the tip of his nose...... Then he heard the arrogant shout, "Do you know what a man is?" That's what a man is! ”

It wasn't until the ball landed far on the ground that Silva reacted and turned angry!

The other players from both teams also watched, and the stadium staff also ran over when they saw the clash, but Silva lost such a big man. He was desperate at all, he was a little afraid when he thought about the kick just now, if it hit him in the face, it would probably be broken.

The more scared you are. The more fierce his face became!

He crossed the middle line in a few steps and ran towards Zhang Tiehan, as if he was going to have a 1V1 one-on-one fight with Zhang Tiehan, Zhang Tiehan just stood there. He has thought about it, he will definitely not fight back when this guy does it. Maybe Silva will be banned and Arsenal will have one less main player.

As for the ball just now. He can completely explain that he was unintentional, in short, he didn't do it, no matter what he said, it makes sense.

It's a pity that the Arsenal players are not so stupid.

They collectively stepped forward and grabbed Silva, pulling him away from him, Silva came viciously, left viciously, and injured several Arsenal teammates with a wave of arms, causing his teammates to be a little dissatisfied with him.

Zhang Tiehan just looked at it with a light smile.

Then he said to his teammates, "See? This is what Arsenal does, dare to say and dare not do, little women. ”

A farce ended, and the players of the two teams continued to warm up, but at this time, the anger of the double anti-dump had been provoked, and they looked at each other a little vicious.

The game has not yet begun, but the flames of war have already been ignited.

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The aftermath of this affair is much more than that.

In the process of the conflict between Silva and Zhang Tiehan, some fans began to enter the stadium, and many fans saw the scene of Zhang Tiehan kicking Silva with the ball, and then they told other fans, and everyone knew about it after the end.

For a time, Zhang Tiehan became the public enemy of Arsenal fans!

After many fans sat down, they began to boo Zhang Tiehan constantly, these Arsenal fans wanted to help Silva get back face, but Zhang Tiehan was noncommittal, and he enjoyed hearing these boos.

"My favorite opponent's fans booed me, and that proves that I've been successful." Zhang Tiehan said happily.

He and his teammates were returning to the locker room together.

Walking to the front of the players' corridor, there happened to be a wave of Arsenal fans sitting there, they threw things at Zhang Tiehan, as if they saw some villain, but unfortunately there was no effect at all, since getting the second kind of ancient power, Zhang Tiehan's control over the body is extremely high, and then the Arsenal fans saw that Zhang Tiehan suddenly stretched out his hand forward, as if playing a trick, and opened his hand and was holding a mobile phone.

His face darkened, "Whose dangerous item is this!" ”

The fans fell silent for a moment.

A female Arsenal fan glared at Zhang Tiehan viciously, "That's mine!" Give it back! ”

Zhang Tiehan shrugged, and he knew that only women would do this kind of thing and be embarrassed with their mobile phones...... It's really dangerous, if he hadn't reacted in time, he would probably have broken his phase.

He smiled softly at the female fan and bent down to put his phone on the grass.

"If you want your phone, get it yourself!" He didn't have the kindness to hand it over.

After these two incidents, Arsenal fans all remember that Wigan Athletic has a thirteenth, named Zhang Tiehan, it is estimated that they can't forget it, and for a while Zhang Tiehan has become the public enemy of Arsenal fans, and every Arsenal fan will grit his teeth viciously when he mentions Zhang Tiehan, as if he is the biggest villain in the world.

But at this time, Zhang Tiehan didn't have time to think about the fans, he and his teammates were in the locker room, listening to Jewell's most reluctant explanation before the game. (To be continued......)