Chapter 377: There is a kind of Christmas war called someone else's Christmas war

When the game was over, Arsenal left Boleyn with a score of 3-1. Sam Allardyce's Hammers will continue to swallow the bitter fruit of their winless streak, with West Ham United picking up just one point in the last three games, falling from the edge of the relegation zone to the relegation zone in an instant.

The highlight of this round, Blue Moon Manchester City, sat at the Etihad to welcome Liverpool, which was different from previous years, and in the end, it was Chilean engineer Manuel Pellegrini's team who had the last laugh. Although it failed to give the Reds the lowest cost of Manchester City's famous home stadium, the fierce 2-1 score still made the fans addicted. Of course, it was the game between the two sides that was in full swing, and the Manchester City players and fans and their manager were in for the final three points.

Only poor Liverpool sullen and could not play happily together

When the league reaches the nineteenth round, it is actually three days after the last round of the league. Another round of the focus has begun, with Chelsea hosting Liverpool to a pitiful Liverpool.

It's Christmas War, and there's a league round about every three days, and there's a big play in every league round. From Manchester City vs. Arsenal, Arsenal vs. Chelsea, Manchester City vs. Liverpool, Chelsea vs. Liverpool, that's the highlight of rounds 16 to 19.

Arsenal have only picked up two points from their two tough games, while Manchester City are now four. Chelsea have a point, Liverpool have yet to pick a point, and it will be up to the final "Stamford Bridge Defence" or "Stamford Bridge Breakdown" movie to be staged, which will determine the top four places in the table.

And, of course, there's a kind of Christmas war.

In Li Zihan's personal social media, he said: "Manchester City vs. Arsenal, Arsenal vs. Chelsea, Manchester City vs. Liverpool, Chelsea vs. Liverpool, this is our Christmas game. Norwich City vs. Manchester United, Hull City vs. Manchester United, Manchester United vs. West Ham United, Aston Villa vs. Manchester United have a kind of Christmas game called 'someone else'. ”

instantly detonated the enthusiasm of the fans, and the fans left messages and ridiculed.

"Only the top four have a Christmas fight"

"Come on, you are the team that won the championship and the Champions League, and you are the team of the League Cup, and of course you can't compare them if you are not in the same world."

"Manchester United: 'You don't play with me, you have the ability to get off the table, we five teams see who can grab a place in the Europa League!' ”

"Manchester United: 'Can we still have fun together?!' ”

"Han Niang, you have to save character!!!"

In any case, although many teams are very dissatisfied with the stadium arranged by the FA, they can only express it through the media, and then life has to go on, and the managers have to go to class with the "class schedule".

With the 19th round of the league in play, Arsenal will travel to Newcastle City to face the Premier League's veteran powerhouse "Magpies" Newcastle United.

This season's Newcastle can be described as a glorious play to the characteristics of the "six-vein sword", a nerve knife that is sometimes ineffective. They can beat Sky City Stoke City 5-1 at home, the post-Ferguson Red Devils at Old Trafford at the Theatre of Dreams, and the Blues Chelsea 2-0. At the same time, they were beaten 3-0 by Swansea City and lost 2-3 at home to the underdog Hull City.

Nerve knives are like this, occasionally stabbing each other hard, including Manchester United, Liverpool and Chelsea all being stabbed by the Magpies. It seems that there is a bit of Tai Chi flavor, and when it is strong, it is strong and when it is weak, it is weak.

Arsenal is a little entangled, saying that they are a strong team, without Li Zihan and other three generals, the strength of the arsenal is far inferior to Manchester City, Manchester United and Liverpool, and even Chelsea, which is still under construction this season. But if you want to say he's an underdog, they're now top of the table, three points ahead of second-placed Chelsea and four points ahead of third-placed Liverpool.

Of course, Arsenal actually want Newcastle to be an underdog, so that they can be weak when they are weak

Li Zihan did not go to the away stadium to watch the game in this game, because he had removed the protective equipment and started a restorative physical exercise at the Kearney training base, hoping to return to the battlefield as soon as possible.

Few fans know where the 'Sporting Goods Stadium' is, but when it comes to 'St James' Park', many people know that it is the home of the famous Newcastle. Today's game was played on the banks of the River Tyne.

The 5-1 win over Stoke City in the last round gave the Magpies at home a boost of confidence. Believing that they could take advantage of this morale boost to win Arsenal and return to the Champions League qualification position themselves, although the goal at the beginning of the season was to qualify for the UEFA Cup, no one could resist the temptation of a more 'high-level' UEFA Champions League than the Europa League.

And the big win over Stoke City in the last round was at home, and this game is also at home. Compared with Arsenal, his own team has less hard work to run around, and he can have an advantage physically.

Arsenal are not yet fully in the squad and their fatigue has been revealed by injuries and multi-fronts. On his side, Thornton, Cabaye, Ben Arfa, and Gufran are all unaffected by injuries and are sharpening their knives.

Therefore, Newcastle are still quite confident in this home game against the leader Arsenal, Manchester City and Chelsea have not been able to pull Arsenal off the top of the table, and it is this difficult and glorious task that is entrusted to the great Newcastle to complete.

The time, the place, and the people are all occupied by themselves, how can they not win?

Obviously, the magpies forgot that the football is round, and that a qiē can happen.

In the third minute of the game, Aaron Ramsey gave Newcastle a brilliant long-range shot. Mesut Ozil played the ball to Oxlade-Chamberlain, who went down and didn't cross it, but distributed it to Rosicky on the rib side of the box. Rosicky knocked on the edge of the middle of the penalty area, and the Welshman Ramsey hit the goal smoothly, and the ball flew slightly over the crossbar and out of the bottom line, scaring the Dutch goalkeeper Krul into a cold sweat.

Although Arsenal's attack scared the goalkeeper, it did not extinguish Newcastle's desire to win. In his home stadium, he didn't think about defense, but boldly attacked.

Left wing-back Santon of Italy took the ball two steps before handing it to Sissoko in front. Sissoko broke through with the ball, and Flamini stepped forward to steal directly.

Sissoko was brought down, but Cabaye, who came to pick it up, kept the ball at his feet. Cabaye made a feint of passing to Gufran, but he slammed the ball past Ramsey. Then you dribble the ball yourself, and then take the ball all the way to the middle and then split it at the end.

The ball reached the feet of Ben Arfa, who is now the absolute heart of Newcastle's front line, and Ben Arfa, who was once one of France's four little swans, and then Ben Arfa began his own performance.

Ben Alfa has some similarities with Nasri, one of the other four little swans, not only in his position on the field, but also in that he likes to play tricks at his feet and doesn't like to pass the ball to his teammates.

When he was on the wing, when he encountered the joint defense of Gibbs and Oxlade-Chamberlain, who came back to help the defense, he wanted to dribble the ball himself. At this time, Newcastle right wing-back Ben Arfa's French compatriot De Bousch completed the bottom set of side tactics.

But Ben Arfa didn't give the ball to the opponent to cut inside, but took the ball and played two tricks at his feet to cut in.

Oxlade-Chamberlain was shaken off by his feints, but full-back Gibbs found a flaw. Reaching out and stabbing the ball directly at Ben Arfa's feet, Ben Alfa eventually cut inside from the combined defense of Gibbs and Chamberlain. But his people went in, but the ball stayed.

Oxlain grabbed the ball before De Busch, who reacted quickly and immediately retreated from the edge position to stretch out his foot to poke the ball. Oxlade-Chamberlain, who was pulled to his shirt, failed to kick in and could only choose to lean his back against the opponent and pass the ball to the middle.

Although the ball was passed, it was only interfered with by Debusy, and in the end, the ball that went to find Ozil did not reach Ozil's feet. Fortunately, Ramsey, who suddenly took two steps forward, received the ball.

Ramsey played the ball quickly and handed it to Mesut Ozil. Arsenal's attack is back in action.

Mesut Ozil was like a commander in midfield, the ball reached his feet and then he split the ball to find the best position, the most suitable team-mate. Teammates continued to take corners and handed them to Ozil for tandem, with Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, Rosicky and Ramsey and Ozil working together fluidly. Although it can't be as tacit as Podolski, Li Zihan and Ozil, at least the efficiency of passing and receiving the ball is still very high.

Arriving at the edge of the box, Mesut Ozil glanced at Giroud and then swept his gaze, as if looking for the right space to send a straight into the box.

Cabaye immediately came over to block the gap between Ozil and Giroud, and by the way, set up space for Ozil's long-range shot.

However, instead of giving Giroud the ball, Mesut Ozil flicked the outside of his left foot to Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain on the wing.

Chamberlain had just stopped the rolling boccia ball when he was robbed by Thornton. Oxlade-Chamberlain nimbly knocked the ball back to Sagna behind him, and then immediately closed his foot to avoid the opponent's tackle.

After watching the Italian Thornton cross him, Chamberlain immediately stepped forward, and at this time, Sagna didn't need to think, and directly sent the ball straight in front of Chamberlain. The young winger only started and ran two steps before he received the ball.